[ale] Archiving directories/files with "compressed" mirror version

[JK]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 14:48 -0400, Ed L. Cashin wrote:
>> Do you have lots of free space and resources?
>>
>> You could do that with,
>>
>>   cp -a foo foo.archive
>>   find foo.archive -type f -exec bzip2 '{}' ';'
> 
> This approach is nice and simple.  It will, of course, only work if you

... etc.

OK Mike, I just have to know: did you just know all this off the
top of your head, or did you spend a couple hours goofing around
with bash to figure it out?  For me, it would be the "couple
hours goofing around" thing, which is why I rarely answer these
questions in such detail :-)

-- JK

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