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From: stu@gtisqr.UUCP (Stu Donaldson)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: compressdir bug?
Summary: compressdir works as is for me.
Message-ID: <442@gt-ford.gtisqr.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 22:36:18 GMT
References: <303@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Organization: Global Tech, Mukilteo, WA
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In article <303@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>, root@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Admin) writes:

> There is a missing `!' just before the -exec in the find.

		find $@ -type f -links 1 -exec test -r {} -a -s {} \; \
		-exec expr '(' {} : '.*\.Z' ')' '=' 0 \; \
		-exec compress $OPTIONS {} \; >/dev/null

	My copy of compressdir does not have the '!' and works
	just as I expect it to.  The test after the first exec
	is testing to see if the file is readable, and has a
	size greater than 0.  If you put a '!' in, then things
	shouldn't work, because it will only try and compress
	files that either aren't readable, or have a size of 0.

	Did I misunderstand something?

> Derek Terveer		root@hawkmoon.MN.ORG
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>
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