JAMES MULLETT

Exporting to a compressed file

This is a little old school, but still pretty cool.

1) Create a named pipe:

/usr/bin/mkfifo ${FILENAME}.pipe

2) Start compressing the named pipe in the background:

/usr/bin/compress < ${FILENAME}.pipe > ${FILENAME}.dmp.Z &

3) Run your export using the pipe as the file name:

exp usr/pwd file=${FILENAME}.pipe full=y compress=y …

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