Re: Re: compressing VERY LARGE files

Thanks, I really had not thought of that. What I might do is write the location of the compression binary to a file once I find it, then check that file first each time to be sure it is still there, if not, just look for it again.

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Re^3: compressing VERY LARGE files by RMGir (Prior) on Sep 26, 2002 at 20:20 UTC
Glad you like it :) But I wouldn't save the location to a file. Imagine a very bare bones server, where only compress is installed. Your script runs once, saves /bin/compress as the preferred compressor, and never notices the next week when bzip is installed. (It could also have trouble if the executable was moved or deleted...) Compared with compressing a 600M file, I wouldn't worry about the overhead of doing (at most!) 21 -x's once each time your script starts up... -- Mike	[reply]

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Re^3: compressing VERY LARGE files
by RMGir (Prior) on Sep 26, 2002 at 20:20 UTC

Glad you like it :)

But I wouldn't save the location to a file.

Imagine a very bare bones server, where only compress is installed. Your script runs once, saves /bin/compress as the preferred compressor, and never notices the next week when bzip is installed. (It could also have trouble if the executable was moved or deleted...)

Compared with compressing a 600M file, I wouldn't worry about the overhead of doing (at most!) 21 -x's once each time your script starts up...
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Mike

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