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In decompression mode, each file will be checked for existence, as will the file with the suffix added. Each file argument must contain a separate complete archive; when multiple files are indicated, each is decompressed in turn.
In the case of gzcat the resulting data is then concatenated in the manner of cat(1).
If invoked as
gunzip
then the
This version of gzip is also capable of decompressing files compressed using compress(1), bzip2(1), lzip, or xz(1).
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These options change the compression level used, with the
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This option specifies that output will go to the standard output stream, leaving files intact. | |
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This option selects decompression rather than compression. | |
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This option turns on force mode.
This allows files with multiple links, symbolic links to regular files,
overwriting of pre-existing files, reading from or writing to a terminal,
and when combined with the
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This option prints a usage summary and exits. | |
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This option prevents gzip from deleting input files after (de)compression. | |
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This option prints gzip license. | |
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This option displays information about the file's compressed and
uncompressed size, ratio, uncompressed name.
With the
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This option causes the stored filename in the input file to be used as the output file. | |
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This option stops the filename and timestamp from being stored in the output file. | |
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With this option, no warnings or errors are printed. | |
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This option is used to gzip the files in a directory tree individually, using the fts(3) library. | |
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This option changes the default suffix from .gz to suffix. | |
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This option will test compressed files for integrity. | |
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This option prints the version of the gzip program. | |
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This option turns on verbose mode, which prints the compression ratio for each file compressed. | |
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Report progress to standard error. | |
This implementation of gzip was ported based on the NetBSD gzip version 20181111, and first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0 .
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