Running gzip from command prompt

[Joe_Fox]

Hi,

Can anyone help me here - should be simple enough to those who are familiar with using the command prompt, etc.

I have some logfiles in location E:\logfiles\folder\subfolder

I need to compress these using gzip and have the compressed files overwrite the current logfiles (so that the .log files are replaced with .log.gz files).

The advice I have been given is to run gzip.exe -9v *.log from the command prompt.

Is this write or do I need to specify the correct folder and the correct destination for the compressed files?

Thanks,
Joe

 

[Matt_B]

Hi,

Can anyone help me here - should be simple enough to those who are familiar with using the command prompt, etc.

I have some logfiles in location E:\logfiles\folder\subfolder

I need to compress these using gzip and have the compressed files overwrite the current logfiles (so that the .log files are replaced with .log.gz files).

The advice I have been given is to run gzip.exe -9v *.log from the command prompt.

Is this write or do I need to specify the correct folder and the correct destination for the compressed files?

Thanks,
Joe

Have you tried copying the files to another location and testing that command?

 

[Darth Vodka]

Hi,

Can anyone help me here - should be simple enough to those who are familiar with using the command prompt, etc.

I have some logfiles in location E:\logfiles\folder\subfolder

I need to compress these using gzip and have the compressed files overwrite the current logfiles (so that the .log files are replaced with .log.gz files).

The advice I have been given is to run gzip.exe -9v *.log from the command prompt.

Is this write or do I need to specify the correct folder and the correct destination for the compressed files?

Thanks,
Joe

gzip.exe -9v E:\logfiles\folder\subfolder\whatever.log

?

 

[Macky]

Hi,

Can anyone help me here - should be simple enough to those who are familiar with using the command prompt, etc.

I have some logfiles in location E:\logfiles\folder\subfolder

I need to compress these using gzip and have the compressed files overwrite the current logfiles (so that the .log files are replaced with .log.gz files).

The advice I have been given is to run gzip.exe -9v *.log from the command prompt.

Is this write or do I need to specify the correct folder and the correct destination for the compressed files?

Thanks,
Joe

Gzip is a command line only utility, it's an old Linux app.
You would need to specify the path to the file that you want to compress, but it won't overwrite that file(don't think so anyways)

A much easier way would be to use 7-zip, it can handle .gz files and has a nice pretty Windows GUI

 

[Joe_Fox]

Cheers Macky,
Gzip does overwrite too so jolly good.