decompress a bunch of .gz files

Adrian Eyre a.eyre at optichrome.com
Thu Nov 25 11:14:01 EST 1999


>> #!/bin/sh
>> for file in *.gz; do gunzip $file; done

> gunzip *.gz

True. I just remebered you could do that after I posted.
Some Unix proglets don't let you do that.

My point was that Python is overkill for gunzip'ping files.

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