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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

gzforce (1)

Name

gzforce - force a '.gz' extension on all gzip files

Synopsis

gzforce [ name ...  ]

Description

GZFORCE(1)                  General Commands Manual                 GZFORCE(1)



NAME
       gzforce - force a '.gz' extension on all gzip files

SYNOPSIS
       gzforce [ name ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
       The  gzforce  command  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.  On systems with a 14 char limi-
       tation on file names, the original name is truncated to make  room  for
       the   .gz   suffix.   For   example,   12345678901234   is  renamed  to
       12345678901.gz. A file name such as foo.tgz is left intact.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | compress/gzip    |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Committed        |
       +---------------+------------------+

SEE ALSO
       gzip(1), gznew(1), gzmore(1), gzgrep(1), gzdiff(1), gzexe(1)



NOTES
       Source code for open source software components in Oracle  Solaris  can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This    software    was    built    from    source     available     at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.    The  original  community
       source                was                downloaded                from
       https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.12.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip.



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