Can anyone show me a simpler way:

Bruce R. Larson ires at kaspar.UUCP
Wed Oct 17 10:23:58 AEST 1990


In article <40852 at eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, cloos at acsu.buffalo.edu (James H. Cloos) writes:
> If anyone can show me a simpler way to do this (the simplest?) I'd be
> very appreciative:
> 
> uncompress `du -a . | egrep .Z | awk '{print $2}' -`
> 

How about this using SysV's /bin/find

  find . -name \*.Z -print -exec uncompress {} \;

or this using either GNU's or BSD's find

  find . -name \*.Z -exec uncompress {} \;

Bruce
blarson%kaspar.UUCP at cs.umb.edu
Integral Resources, Milton  MA



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