I have a script which I am running in the ubuntu terminal (bash) . Currently I am directly appending the output of the script to a file using the below command :
./run.sh > a.txt
But for some input files run.sh may produce output which is large in size without compression . Is it possible to write these output directly to a zip file without going through the dump file intermediate ? I know it is possible in Java and python . But I wanted a general method of doing it in the bash so that I could keep the run.sh same even if my running program is changing .
I have tried searching the web but haven't come across something useful .
In this case, a gzip file would be more appropriate. Unlike zip, which is an archive format, gzip is just a compressed data format and can easily be used in a pipe:
./run.sh | gzip > a.txt.gz
The resulting file can be uncompressed in place using the gunzip command (resulting in a file a.txt), viewed with zmore or listed with zcat which allows you to process the output with a filter without writing the whole decompressed file anywhere.