Is there a compression utility that will just compress the same file without creating a new one?
<p>I'm using gzip with PHP to zip up some log files. My development machine is windows, and as you all know, a windows the path are sometimes separated by a space which makes it difficult because I have to wrap everything in quotes to get to the logs.</p>

<p>I'd like to keep my code as clean as I can and was wondering if there is a compression utility that will take the same file to be compressed and zip that file instead of creating a new, compressed file. This way, I wouldn't have to run a separate command to delete the uncompressed file afterwards.</p>

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<p>Just for clarification, I'm not using shell_exec to zip these, but instead, PHPs internal functions. "gzwrite" etc.</p>
