linuxfindziptaraix

Single complex command to find, tar, and zip files on AIX

I have a long Linux csh command that finds/tars/and zips all files in all subdirectories of a directory. It looks like this:

find /dir1/dir2/* -mtime -1 -type -f -print0 | xargs -0 tar -zcf /dir1/dir3/log_archive.tar.gz

I modified it for AIX to look like this (We have both Linux and AIX boxes on our system.):

find /dir1/dir2/* -mtime -1 -type -f -print | xargs tar -cf /dir1/dir3/log_archive.tar

This only creates the tar file since AIX doesn't allow the z(ip) option on the tar command. I'm struggling with adding the zip part to it.

I know I can create a multi line script and will do it if I have to. I'd rather keep it a single executable command so I can add it to crontab as a single line. It works great on Linux.

Solution

  • Pipe the output of tar to gzip.

    find /dir1/dir2/* -mtime -1 -type -f -print | xargs tar -cf - | gzip > /dir1/dir3/log_archive.tar.gz

    - in place of the output filename means to write the archive to standard output, so you can pipe to another command.