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From: mason@oct1.UUCP (David Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can anyone show me a simpler way:
Message-ID: <1990Oct18.163200.2151@oct1.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 90 16:32:00 GMT
References: <40852@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: mason@oct1.UUCP (David Mason)
Organization: Open Computer Technology
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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

find . -name \*.Z -print | xargs uncompress

Saves du'ing all the files, prevents the possibility of having an argument
string that is too long, and is probably more readable.

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