Re: export WITH compress

In article <l3estt8vmu6l3rjssgjdqeov5dj7a82hsi_at_4ax.com>,  Andreas Wizemann <AWizemann_at_fvvag.de> wrote:

>How can i compress (or zip or gzip, whatever gives better results)
>while export is still running, so file1 is compressed before or while
>export writes to file2 ?
>Maybe this could be done by a 'pipe' ? But i've never used a pipe
>in unix!

Yes. Not by a process pipe ( ... | ... ) but by a pipe file.

Here's an expample:

/etc/mnknod exp.dmp p
cat exp.dmp | compress >exp.dmp.Z
exp userid=... file=exp.dmp buffer=... .....

With that solution you don't have to use multiple output files.

Hope this helps!

Greetings from Switzerland -- Gruesse aus der Schweiz Happl Received on Tue Oct 30 2001 - 01:27:51 CST