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From: ian@dms.cdc.com (Ian Hogg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can anyone show me a simpler way:
Message-ID: <571@hewey.dms.cdc.com>
Date: 17 Oct 90 22:31:43 GMT
References: <40852@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: Empros Systems, Control Data, Plymouth, MN
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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:

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



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