Gzip question

[Teemslo]

Alright, guys working on some school work and this one has me stumped, using gzip I need to compress a file named date.txt using the syntax gzip /FinalPractice/date.txt works but yields date.txt.gz my question is how can I accomplish this but have the name be date.gz

Thanks so much for any help!

[MichaelLindman]

You can do this by simply redirecting the output of the gzip command and piping it to a new file called data.gz like this:

gzip -c /path/to/file/date.txt > date.gz

[Teemslo]

Amazing! That was it, my finish syntax worked. I really appreciate it!

[MichaelLindman]

Great happy to help