[6370fa6] | 1 | <sect2>
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| 2 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 3 |
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| 4 | <para>
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| 5 | The Gzip package contains the compress, gunzip, gzexe, gzip, uncompress,
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| 6 | zcat, zcmp, zdiff, zforece, zgrep, zmore and znew programs.
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| 7 | </para>
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| 8 |
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| 9 | </sect2>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <sect3><title>gunzip</title>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <para>
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| 16 | gunzip decompresses files that are compressed with gzip.
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| 17 | </para>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | </sect3>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <sect3><title>gzexe</title>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <para>
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[7d90bd3] | 24 | gzexe allows to compress executables in place and have them
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| 25 | automatically uncompress and execute when they are run (at a penalty in
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[6370fa6] | 26 | performance).
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| 27 | </para>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | </sect3>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <sect3><title>gzip</title>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <para>
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| 34 | gzip reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77).
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| 35 | </para>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | </sect3>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <sect3><title>zcat</title>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <para>
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| 42 | zcat uncompresses either a list of files on the command line or its
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| 43 | standard input and writes the uncompressed data on standard output
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| 44 | </para>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | </sect3>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <sect3><title>zcmp</title>
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <para>
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| 51 | zcmp invokes the cmp program on compressed files.
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| 52 | </para>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | </sect3>
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| 55 |
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| 56 | <sect3><title>zdiff</title>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | <para>
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| 59 | zdiff invokes the diff program on compressed files.
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| 60 | </para>
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| 61 |
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| 62 | </sect3>
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| 63 |
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| 64 | <sect3><title>zforce</title>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | <para>
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| 67 | zforce forces a .gz extension on all gzip files so that gzip will not
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| 68 | compress them twice. This can be useful for files with names truncated
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| 69 | after a file transfer.
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| 70 | </para>
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| 71 |
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| 72 | </sect3>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <sect3><title>zgrep</title>
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| 75 |
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| 76 | <para>
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| 77 | zgrep invokes the grep program on compressed files.
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| 78 | </para>
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| 79 |
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| 80 | </sect3>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | <sect3><title>zmore</title>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <para>
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| 85 | Zmore is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text
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| 86 | files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy terminal (similar to the
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| 87 | more program).
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| 88 | </para>
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| 89 |
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| 90 | </sect3>
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| 91 |
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| 92 | <sect3><title>znew</title>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <para>
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| 95 | Znew recompresses files from .Z (compress) format to .gz (gzip) format.
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| 96 | </para>
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| 97 |
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| 98 | </sect3>
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| 99 |
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| 100 | </sect2>
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| 101 |
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