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From: ires@kaspar.UUCP (Bruce R. Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can anyone show me a simpler way:
Summary: `find' handles this more easily
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Date: 17 Oct 90 00:23:58 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}' -`
> 

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@cs.umb.edu
Integral Resources, Milton  MA