lfs-book/appendixa/gzip-desc.xml

<sect2><title>Contents of gzip-&gzip-contversion;</title>

<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
<para>gunzip (link to gzip), gzexe, gzip,
uncompress (link to gunzip), zcat (link to gzip), zcmp, zdiff, zforce,
zgrep, zmore and znew</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>Description</title>

<sect4><title>gunzip, uncompress</title>
<para>gunzip and uncompress decompress files which are compressed with 
gzip.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>gzexe</title>
<para>gzexe allows you to compress executables in place and have them 
automatically uncompress and execute when they are run (at a penalty in 
performance).</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>gzip</title>
<para>gzip reduces the size of the named files using 
Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77).</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>zcat</title>
<para>zcat uncompresses either a list of files on the command line or its 
standard input and writes the uncompressed data on 
standard output</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>zcmp</title>
<para>zcmp invokes the cmp program on compressed files.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>zdiff</title>
<para>zdiff invokes the diff program on compressed files.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>zforce</title>
<para>zforce forces a .gz extension on all gzip files so that gzip will not 
compress them twice.  This can be useful for files with names truncated 
after a file transfer.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>zgrep</title>
<para>zgrep invokes the grep program on compressed files.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>zmore</title>
<para>zmore is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text 
files one screen at a time on a soft-copy terminal (similar to the
more program).</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>znew</title>
<para>znew re-compresses files from .Z (compress) format to 
.gz (gzip) format.</para></sect4>

</sect3>

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