oops, forgot to add a very usefull script...

Signed-off-by: Alex A. Naanou <alex.nanou@gmail.com>

ui (gen4)/archive/media/img/my/work/compress-archive.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# TODO make this runnable from anywhere...
+#	- prepend paths with './' only if local/relative
+
+BASE_PATH=.
+
+
+ARCH_BZIP2='bzip2 -v {}'
+ARCH_GZIP='gzip -v {}'
+# XXX should we cygpath -w all the inputs???
+ARCH_NTFS='compact /c /exe:lzx {}'
+
+
+# default...
+ARCH=$ARCH_NTFS
+
+
+EXT=ARW
+
+# HACK: this is here to avoid using windows find...
+PATH=/bin:$PATH
+
+
+
+printhelp(){
+	echo "Usage: `basename $0` [ARGUMENTS] [PATH]"
+	echo
+	echo "Arguments:"
+	echo "	-h --help	- print this help and exit."
+	echo
+	echo "	-bz -bzip2	- use bzip2 to compress (default)."
+	echo "	-gz -gzip	- use gzip to compress."
+	echo "	-c -compact	- use ntfs compression."
+	echo
+	echo "	-ext EXT	- set file extension to compress (default: ARW)"
+	echo "			  NOTE: only one -ext is supported now".
+	echo
+}
+
+# process args...
+while true ; do
+	case $1 in
+		-h|--help)
+			printhelp
+			exit
+			;;
+
+		# archivers...
+		-bz|--bzip2)
+			ARCH=$ARCH_BZIP2
+			shift
+			;;
+		-gz|--gzip)
+			ARCH=$ARCH_GZIP
+			shift
+			;;
+		-c|--compact)
+			ARCH=$ARCH_NTFS
+			shift
+			;;
+
+		# extension to compress...
+		--ext)
+			EXT=$2
+			shift
+			shift
+			;;
+
+		*)
+			break
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+# get path...
+if [ "$1" ] ; then
+	BASE_PATH=$1
+fi
+
+
+
+# do the work...
+find "$BASE_PATH" -name \*.${EXT} -exec ${ARCH} \;
+
+
+
+echo done.
+
+
+
+# vim:set nowrap nospell :