COMPRESS(1) - General Commands Manual # COMPRESS(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # compress, uncompress, zcat - compress and expand data (compress mode)
SYNOPSIS # compress [-123456789cdfghlNnOqrtv] [-b bits] [-o filename] [-S suffix] [file …]
uncompress [-cfhlNnqrtv] [-o filename] [file …]
zcat [-fghqr] [file …]
DESCRIPTION # The compress utility reduces the size of the named files using adaptive Lempel-Ziv coding, in compress mode. If invoked as compress -g, the deflate mode of compression is chosen; see gzip(1) for more information.
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GZEXE(1) - General Commands Manual # GZEXE(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # gzexe - create auto-decompressing executables
SYNOPSIS # gzexe [-d] file …
DESCRIPTION # The gzexe utility uses gzip(1) to compress executables, producing executables that decompress on-the-fly when executed. This saves disk space, at the cost of slower execution times. The original executables are saved by copying each of them to a file with the same name with a ‘~’ suffix appended.
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GZIP(1) - General Commands Manual # GZIP(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # gzip, gunzip, gzcat - compress and expand data (deflate mode)
SYNOPSIS # gzip [-123456789cdfhkLlNnOqrtVv] [-b bits] [-o filename] [-S suffix] [file …]
gunzip [-cfhkLlNnqrtVv] [-o filename] [file …]
gzcat [-fhqr] [file …]
DESCRIPTION # The gzip utility reduces the size of the named files using adaptive Lempel-Ziv coding, in deflate mode. If invoked as gzip -O, the compress mode of compression is chosen; see compress(1) for more information.
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NEWSYSLOG(8) - System Manager’s Manual # NEWSYSLOG(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # newsyslog, newsyslog.conf - rotate log files
SYNOPSIS # newsyslog [-Fmnrv] [-a directory] [-f config_file] [log …]
DESCRIPTION # The newsyslog utility rotates log files when they exceed a configurable size or age. The log file is renamed to log.0 and an empty file is created in its place. An archive of older logs may be kept: in order of increasing age, these files are named log.
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SAVECORE(8) - System Manager’s Manual # SAVECORE(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # savecore - save a core dump of the operating system
SYNOPSIS # savecore [-cfvz] [-NÂ system] directory
DESCRIPTION # savecore copies the currently running kernel and its associated core dump into directory, and enters a reboot message and information about the core dump into the system log.
The options are as follows:
-c
Clears the dump, so that future invocations of savecore will ignore it.
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SHAR(1) - General Commands Manual # SHAR(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # shar - create a shell archive of files
SYNOPSIS # shar file …
DESCRIPTION # shar writes an sh(1) shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file hierarchy specified by the command line operands. Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the files they contain (the find(1) utility does this correctly).
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UUENCODE(1) - General Commands Manual # UUENCODE(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # uuencode, uudecode, b64encode, b64decode - encode/decode a binary file
SYNOPSIS # uuencode [-m] [-o output_file] [file] name
uudecode [-cimprs] [file …]
uudecode [-i] -o output_file [file]
b64encode [-o output_file] [file] name
b64decode [-ciprs] [file …]
b64decode [-i] -o output_file [file]
DESCRIPTION # The uuencode and uudecode utilities are used to transmit binary files over transmission mediums that do not support formats other than printable ASCII data.
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ZDIFF(1) - General Commands Manual # ZDIFF(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # zcmp, zdiff - compare compressed files
SYNOPSIS # zcmp [options] file1 [file2]
zdiff [options] file1 [file2]
DESCRIPTION # zcmp and zdiff are filters that invoke cmp(1) or diff(1) respectively to compare compressed files. Such files generally have a “Z” or “gz” extension (both the compress(1) and gzip(1) formats are supported). Any options that are specified are passed to cmp(1) or diff(1).
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ZFORCE(1) - General Commands Manual # ZFORCE(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # zforce - force gzip files to have a .gz suffix
SYNOPSIS # zforce file …
DESCRIPTION # The zforce utility renames gzip(1) files to have a ‘.gz’ suffix, so that gzip(1) will not compress them twice. This can be useful if file names were truncated during a file transfer. Files that have an existing ‘.gz’, ‘-gz’, ‘_gz’, ‘.
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ZMORE(1) - General Commands Manual # ZMORE(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # zmore, zless - view compressed files
SYNOPSIS # zmore [flags] [file …]
zless [flags] [file …]
DESCRIPTION # zmore is a filter that allows the viewing of files compressed with Lempel-Ziv encoding. Such files generally have a “Z” or “gz” extension (both the compress(1) and gzip(1) formats are supported). Any flags that are specified are passed to more(1) or less(1), respectively.
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