Annotation of src/usr.bin/compress/zforce.1, Revision 1.2
1.2 ! jmc 1: .\" $OpenBSD: zforce.1,v 1.1 2003/07/29 11:50:09 otto Exp $
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17: .Dd July 29, 2003
18: .Dt ZFORCE 1
19: .Os
20: .Sh NAME
21: .Nm zforce
22: .Nd force gzip files to have a .gz suffix
23: .Sh SYNOPSIS
24: .Nm zforce
25: .Ar
26: .Sh DESCRIPTION
27: The
28: .Nm
29: utility renames
30: .Xr gzip 1
31: files to have a
32: .Sq .gz
33: suffix, so that
34: .Xr gzip 1
35: will not compress them twice.
36: This can be useful if file names were truncated during a file transfer.
37: Files that have an existing
38: .Sq .gz ,
39: .Sq -gz ,
40: .Sq _gz ,
41: .Sq .tgz
42: or
43: .Sq .taz
44: suffix, or that have not been compressed by
45: .Xr gzip 1 ,
46: are ignored.
47: .Sh SEE ALSO
1.2 ! jmc 48: .Xr compress 1 ,
1.1 otto 49: .Xr gzip 1
50: .Sh CAVEATS
51: .Nm
52: overwrites existing files without warning.