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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net!tncsrv09.home.tnetconsulting.net!.POSTED.omega.home.tnetconsulting.net!not-for-mail From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 22:21:00 -0500 Organization: TNet Consulting Message-ID: <v4b46s$7dh$1@tncsrv09.home.tnetconsulting.net> References: <v48s96$u6fg$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 03:21:00 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: tncsrv09.home.tnetconsulting.net; posting-host="omega.home.tnetconsulting.net:198.18.1.11"; logging-data="7601"; mail-complaints-to="newsmaster@tnetconsulting.net" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <v48s96$u6fg$1@dont-email.me> Bytes: 1363 Lines: 14 On 6/11/24 01:53, J Newman wrote: > Any suggestions on how to proceed? As others have said, it's very difficult to tell within the first five seconds what the ultimate compression ratio will be. If you have the disk space, compress using all of the compression options and then remove all but the smallest file. Then go on to the next file. -- Grant. . . .