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Created August 16, 2018 19:34
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Script to recompressing files from *.gz to *.xz
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recompress.gz2xz.sh
#!/bin/bash
for f in $(find . -name \*.gz)
do
echo -n "$(dirname "$f")/$(basename "$f" .gz): .gz => .xz ... " && \
gzip -cd "$f" | xz -9 > $(dirname "$f")/$(basename "$f" .gz).xz && \
touch --reference="$f" $(dirname "$f")/$(basename "$f" .gz).xz && \
rm "$f" && \
echo "done"
done
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