On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 04:46:57PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
> I do not quite manage to find the proper catenation of commands to mv or
> cp a file and compress it (preferably with bzip2) on the fly.
>
> Suppose I want to backup my /etc/X11/XF86Config4 file to
> /home/bob/configs as XF86Config.bz2
>
> Thank you.
Hi Bob,
cat ${SOURCEFILE} | bzip2 -c > ${BACKUP_LOCATION}
should work.
Regards,
Jan
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