On Friday 24 July 2009 10:45:50 am lynn wrote:
On Friday 24 July 2009 17:14:54 David C. Rankin wrote:
On Friday 24 July 2009 09:45:09 am lynn wrote:
Brilliant. gzip takes it down to this: -rw-r--r-- 1 lynn users 12027697 2009-07-23 15:42 koncs.out -rw-r--r-- 1 lynn users 672819 2009-07-24 12:28 koncs.out.gz Amazing! That's sendable or putuppable so they can download it no?
How do I bzip2 it?
L x
You have probably figured this out already, but
bzip2 koncs.out
Will "replace" the file koncs.out with the compressed file koncs.out.bz2
Thanks David. I didn't realise it was so simple. Reading the bzip2 articles on google really can confuse such a simple issue.
L x
Yes, that was frustrating at first. Most articles and man pages are written for developers not normal humans. That's where tldp.org tries to fill the gap with howto articles (some really quite good), otherwise google "command tutorial howto" works pretty well. Most people (me included), just need short howtos that cover basic operations that don't say much more that "Look dummy, to do abc, just type xyz in the terminal..." After you have that, then the man pages start to make sense. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org