I have this directories that i am trying to gzip. I am useing this command to tar and then zip it tar -cf file.tar file1 file2 file3 gzip file.tar now, my problem is after i gzip it i do not wanted this files to be bigger than 10MB. if they exceed 10MB , i redo the whole process. Is there any eaiser way to do this. can anyone help me do this w/ some kind of scripts or something. thanks a lot gaurav thanks, Gaurav

# if you have gnu tar, you can combine the tar and gzip operations with # tar czvf file.tgz file.1 file.2 file.3 if [ `du -sck file.1 file.2 file.3 | awk '/total/ { print $1 }'` -le 10000 ] ;then tar cvf file.tar file.1 file.2 file.3 gzip file.tar if [ `du -sk file.tar.gz | awk '{ print $1 }'` -gt 10000 ] ; then echo "gzip file too large" fi fi

thanks a lotttttt thanks, Gaurav