Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively

On 6/11/24 01:53, J Newman wrote:

Any suggestions on how to proceed?

As others have said, it's very difficult to tell within the first five seconds what the ultimate compression ratio will be.
If you have the disk space, compress using all of the compression options and then remove all but the smallest file.
Then go on to the next file.
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Grant. . . .