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|    George to JR Dolobson    |
|    Re: compressing and password protect fil    |
|    06 Mar 26 22:55:32    |
      From: invalid@invalid.invalid              On 06/03/2026 21:40, JR Dolobson wrote:       > In Ubuntu, right now I'm selecting each individual file (left       > clicking), right clicking and choosing compress, keeping same file       > name, and then entering password, then create but this is going to       > take a long time for well over a hundred files! I don't want to       > create a new archive name for the group as this will mean that all       > would have to be unzipped later. I just want to keep original file       > names. thanks                     Try this:              #!/usr/bin/env bash       for f in *; do [[ -f "$f" && ! "$f" =~ \.gz$ ]] && gzip -9 "$f"; done              ,gz doesn't support passwords!              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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