Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively

From	D <nospam@example.net>
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Subject	Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively
Date	2024-06-12 10:13 +0200
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On Wed, 12 Jun 2024, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> writes:
>> 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.
>
> Not just difficult but impossible in general: the input file could
> change character in its second half, switching the overall result from
> that that is (for example) a gzip win to an xz win.
>
>

This is true! The only thing I can imagine are parsing the file type, and 
from that file type, drawing conclusions about the compressability of the 
data, or doing a flawed statistical analysis, but as said, the end could 
be vastly different from the start.

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Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively J Newman <jenniferkatenewman@gmail.com> - 2024-06-11 14:53 +0800
  Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-06-11 10:51 +0200
  Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2024-06-11 14:58 +0000
  Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-06-11 22:21 -0500
    Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-12 08:17 +0100
      Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-06-12 10:13 +0200
        Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively J Newman <jenniferkatenewman@gmail.com> - 2024-06-13 12:46 +0800
          Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-06-13 11:55 +0200
            Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-06-13 22:35 -0500
              Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-06-14 11:07 +0200
    Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively J Newman <jenniferkatenewman@gmail.com> - 2024-06-13 12:43 +0800
      Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2024-06-13 10:13 +0300
        Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-06-13 11:55 +0200
        Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-06-14 09:06 +1000
          Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-06-14 12:25 +1000
  Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively J Newman <jenniferkatenewman@gmail.com> - 2024-06-15 11:30 +0800

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