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6.62.2. Contents of Gzip‌

Installed programs: gunzip, gzexe, gzip, uncompress (hard link with gunzip), zcat, zcmp, zdiff, zegrep, zfgrep, zforce, zgrep, zless, zmore, and znew

Short Descriptions

gunzip Decompresses gzipped files

gzexe Creates self-decompressing executable files

gzip Compresses the given files using Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) coding

uncompress Decompresses compressed files

zcat Decompresses the given gzipped files to standard output

zcmp Runs cmp on gzipped files

zdiff Runs diff on gzipped files

zegrep Runs egrep on gzipped files

zfgrep Runs fgrep on gzipped files

zforce Forces a .gz extension on all given files that are gzipped files, so that gzip will not compress them again; this can be useful when file names were truncated during a file transfer

zgrep Runs grep on gzipped files

zless Runs less on gzipped files

zmore Runs more on gzipped files

znew Re-compresses files from compress format to gzip format—.Z to .gz

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