Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!sci.kun.nl!atcmpe!ronald From: ronald@atcmp.nl (Ronald Pikkert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Can anyone show me a simpler way: Message-ID: <674@atcmpe.atcmp.nl> Date: 16 Oct 90 19:39:25 GMT References: <40852@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Organization: AT Computing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Lines: 16 From article <40852@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, by cloos@acsu.buffalo.edu (James H. Cloos): > 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}' -` Try this: find . -name "*.Z" -exec uncompress {} \; - Ronald Pikkert E-mail: ronald@atcmp.nl @ AT Computing b.v. Tel: 080 - 566880 Toernooiveld 6525 ED Nijmegen