https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-zip-files/m-p/404040#M278967 Please explain what does not work, and be so kind to post code using {I} icon. Fri, 13 Oct 2017 17:19:33 GMT error_prone 2017-10-13T17:19:33Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-zip-files/m-p/404039#M278966 <P>I want to zip individual files. The kicker is sometimes they already exist, so I don't want to rezip them.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>This&nbsp;<A title="link" href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/160405/use-gzip-to-compress-the-files-in-a-directory-except-for-already-existing-gz-fi" target="_self">example</A>&nbsp;code works from command line, but I don't know how to get it working using X...</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="image.png" style="width: 562px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15877i82E2720A858C61CE/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="image.png" alt="image.png" /></span></P> <P>Thanks!</P> <P>jim</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 13 Oct 2017 17:15:42 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-zip-files/m-p/404039#M278966 cellurl 2017-10-13T17:15:42Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-zip-files/m-p/404040#M278967 Please explain what does not work, and be so kind to post code using {I} icon. Fri, 13 Oct 2017 17:19:33 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-zip-files/m-p/404040#M278967 error_prone 2017-10-13T17:19:33Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-zip-files/m-p/404044#M278968 <P>I dumbed it down and it works. (Lucked out)</P> <P><BR /><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="image.png" style="width: 560px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15878i61F48D4F60E4AF51/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="image.png" alt="image.png" /></span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 13 Oct 2017 17:26:09 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-zip-files/m-p/404044#M278968 cellurl 2017-10-13T17:26:09Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-zip-files/m-p/404050#M278969 the error is shown above. "find: incomplete stmt". Also it didnt zip... Fri, 13 Oct 2017 17:44:20 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-zip-files/m-p/404050#M278969 cellurl 2017-10-13T17:44:20Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-zip-files/m-p/404056#M278970 <P>You need to escape the ! character in your unix command.&nbsp; So if you want to find files that do NOT end if .gz it might look like this.</P> <PRE><CODE class=" language-sas">find ...... \! -name '*.gz' ....</CODE></PRE> <P>PS Why did you post a photograph of text?&nbsp; Copy the text as text and use the {i} button on the editor to pop-up a text window to paste the text into.</P> Fri, 13 Oct 2017 18:03:55 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-zip-files/m-p/404056#M278970 Tom 2017-10-13T18:03:55Z