Saturday, February 11, 2006

Re-compress your gzipp'ed files to bzip2 using a Bash script (HOWTO)

"So, having this nice shiny new USB external drive and some time on my hands, I wrote a Bash utility script to re-compress gzip files to bzip2, using the external drive. It takes an order of magnitude longer to compress, but at least I'll save some space and have a hope of recovering the compressed data if things go wrong... Right??"

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