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Subject: Re: Can anyone show me a simpler way:
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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}' -`
>
>Thnaks.
>
>(& for those novices herein, yes, it does work. :)
>

Easy. 

uncompressdir .


In case you don't have uncompressdir, there is another way

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

>-JimC
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