I have a recipe that successfully detaches e-mail attachments and puts
them in a separate directory, it then calls ftp to send those off and
all is well.
But, before I send them off, I want to gzip them.... no problem...BUT
the problem is I need to keep the original file as well as the .gz file.
So... I've been fighting with this for hours.... trying to use a
combination of ls and xargs...
DUMMY = `( \
cd ${DELIVERY_DIR} \
find * -print0 | xargs -0trI {fn} gzip -c \"{fn}\"" > \"{fn}.gz\""; \
)`
I do not know why I need those extra " after \" but it seems to generate
the correct command.
I use the -t option in xargs so I can see the actual command in the
procmail log (errout)
That shows:
gzip -c "$DOCUMENT CHANGES LOG.DOC" > "$DOCUMENT CHANGES LOG.DOC.gz"
looks great... but, followed by
gzip: "$DOCUMENT CHANGES LOG.DOC" > "$DOCUMENT CHANGES LOG.DOC.gz": No
such file or directory
It appears the (redirection arrow) > is being interpreted as part of the
file name.
This SHOULD be such a simple thing to do....
Too bad gzip doesn't have an option to keep the original file.... oh
well, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. :-)
Any ideas on how to beat this thing into submission? :-)
Thank you.
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