下面的 perl 程式會把以下列的壓縮格式檔 (.tar.gz, .tgz. .tar.Z, 和 .Z for this iteration) 重新打包成最佳的壓縮值。這 perl 原始程式都有全方位的好文件 來說明它做什麼以及它如何辦到的。
#!/usr/bin/perl -w ####################################################### # # # This program takes compressed and gzipped programs # # in the current directory and turns them into bzip2 # # format. It handles the .tgz extension in a # # reasonable way, producing a .tar.bz2 file. # # # ####################################################### $counter = 0; $saved_bytes = 0; $totals_file = '/tmp/machine_bzip2_total'; $machine_bzip2_total = 0; while(<*[Zz]>) { next if /^bzip2-0.1pl2.tar.gz$/; push @files, $_; } $total = scalar(@files); foreach (@files) { if (/tgz$/) { ($new=$_) =~ s/tgz$/tar.bz2/; } else { ($new=$_) =~ s/\.g?z$/.bz2/i; } $orig_size = (stat $_)[7]; ++$counter; print "Repacking $_ ($counter/$total)...\n"; if ((system "gzip -cd $_ |bzip2 >$new") == 0) { $new_size = (stat $new)[7]; $factor = int(100*$new_size/$orig_size+.5); $saved_bytes += $orig_size-$new_size; print "$new is about $factor% of the size of $_. :",($factor<100)?')':'(',"\n"; unlink $_; } else { print "Arrgghh! Something happened to $_: $!\n"; } } print "You've ", ($saved_bytes>=0)?"saved":"lost", " $saved_bytes bytes of storage space :", ($saved_bytes>=0)?")":"(", "\n"; unless (-e '/tmp/machine_bzip2_total') { system ('echo "0" >/tmp/machine_bzip2_total'); system ('chmod', '0666', '/tmp/machine_bzip2_total'); } chomp($machine_bzip2_total = `cat $totals_file`); open TOTAL, ">$totals_file" or die "Can't open system-wide total: $!"; $machine_bzip2_total += $saved_bytes; print TOTAL $machine_bzip2_total; close TOTAL; print "That's a machine-wide total of ",`cat $totals_file`," bytes saved.\n";