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- ]>
- <sect1 id="ch-system-gzip" role="wrap">
- <?dbhtml filename="gzip.html"?>
- <sect1info condition="script">
- <productname>gzip</productname>
- <productnumber>&gzip-version;</productnumber>
- <address>&gzip-url;</address>
- </sect1info>
- <title>Gzip-&gzip-version;</title>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip">
- <primary sortas="a-Gzip">Gzip</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <sect2 role="package">
- <title/>
- <para>The Gzip package contains programs for compressing and decompressing
- files.</para>
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
- <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>&gzip-ch6-sbu;</seg>
- <seg>&gzip-ch6-du;</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 role="installation">
- <title>Installation of Gzip</title>
- <para>Prepare Gzip for compilation:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin</userinput></screen>
- <para>Compile the package:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
- <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
- <para>Install the package:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
- <para>Move some programs that do not need to be on the root filesystem:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /bin/{gzexe,uncompress,zcmp,zdiff,zegrep} /usr/bin
- mv -v /bin/{zfgrep,zforce,zgrep,zless,zmore,znew} /usr/bin</userinput></screen>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 id="contents-gzip" role="content">
- <title>Contents of Gzip</title>
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>gunzip, gzexe, gzip, uncompress, zcat, zcmp, zdiff, zegrep, zfgrep,
- zforce, zgrep, zless, zmore, and znew</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
- <variablelist>
- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
- <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
- <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
- <varlistentry id="gunzip">
- <term><command>gunzip</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Decompresses gzipped files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip gunzip">
- <primary sortas="b-gunzip">gunzip</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="gzexe">
- <term><command>gzexe</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Creates self-decompressing executable files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip gzexe">
- <primary sortas="b-gzexe">gzexe</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="gzip">
- <term><command>gzip</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Compresses the given files using Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) coding</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip gzip">
- <primary sortas="b-gzip">gzip</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="uncompress">
- <term><command>uncompress</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Decompresses compressed files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip uncompress">
- <primary sortas="b-uncompress">uncompress</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="zcat">
- <term><command>zcat</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Decompresses the given gzipped files to standard output</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zcat">
- <primary sortas="b-zcat">zcat</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="zcmp">
- <term><command>zcmp</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Runs <command>cmp</command> on gzipped files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zcmp">
- <primary sortas="b-zcmp">zcmp</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="zdiff">
- <term><command>zdiff</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Runs <command>diff</command> on gzipped files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zdiff">
- <primary sortas="b-zdiff">zdiff</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="zegrep">
- <term><command>zegrep</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Runs <command>egrep</command> on gzipped files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zegrep">
- <primary sortas="b-zegrep">zegrep</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="zfgrep">
- <term><command>zfgrep</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Runs <command>fgrep</command> on gzipped files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zfgrep">
- <primary sortas="b-zfgrep">zfgrep</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="zforce">
- <term><command>zforce</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Forces a <filename class="extension">.gz</filename> extension on
- all given files that are gzipped files, so that <command>gzip</command>
- will not compress them again; this can be useful when file names were
- truncated during a file transfer</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zforce">
- <primary sortas="b-zforce">zforce</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="zgrep">
- <term><command>zgrep</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Runs <command>grep</command> on gzipped files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zgrep">
- <primary sortas="b-zgrep">zgrep</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="zless">
- <term><command>zless</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Runs <command>less</command> on gzipped files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zless">
- <primary sortas="b-zless">zless</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="zmore">
- <term><command>zmore</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Runs <command>more</command> on gzipped files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zmore">
- <primary sortas="b-zmore">zmore</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="znew">
- <term><command>znew</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Re-compresses files from <command>compress</command> format to
- <command>gzip</command> format—<filename
- class="extension">.Z</filename> to <filename
- class="extension">.gz</filename></para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip znew">
- <primary sortas="b-znew">znew</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
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