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From: subbarao@bow.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
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Subject: Re: Can anyone show me a simpler way:
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Date: 16 Oct 90 13:35:52 GMT
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In article <40852@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> cloos@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}' -`
>

This solution does not have two pipes, but I'm not sure if it's faster. Intuitively, I'd do:

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

Hope this helps.

				-Kartik




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