how to zip files?

[cellurl]

I want to zip individual files. The kicker is sometimes they already exist, so I don't want to rezip them.

This example code works from command line, but I don't know how to get it working using X...

Thanks!

jim

[error_prone]

Please explain what does not work, and be so kind to post code using {I} icon.

[cellurl]

the error is shown above. "find: incomplete stmt". Also it didnt zip...

[cellurl · Accepted solution]

I dumbed it down and it works. (Lucked out)

[Tom]

You need to escape the ! character in your unix command.  So if you want to find files that do NOT end if .gz it might look like this.

find ...... \! -name '*.gz' ....

PS Why did you post a photograph of text?  Copy the text as text and use the {i} button on the editor to pop-up a text window to paste the text into.