Elizabeth Barham <soggytrousers@yahoo.com> [2002-09-08 01:47:11 -0500]: > Would catting it into gzip be okay? As in: > > cat largeFile.* | gzip -c - > x.gz Yes. I assume you mean on a small file only system? Both cat and gzip (gzip > 1.3) know about large files. So this should be good up until the gzip x.gz output exceeded 2GB. And generally pipes are less prone to problems with large files. (If you looked at the APIs for lseek() and friends it would make sense.) Bob
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