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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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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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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