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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with GZIP Post 302531399 by Corona688 on Thursday 16th of June 2011 04:45:40 PM
Old 06-16-2011
gzip is not a package archiver, it doesn't contain multiple files or archive information of that sort. It can contain information on one file, but has to be told to use it, otherwise it assumes it can just lop the .gz off the end and get the name from that -- Test_YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.gz would become Test_YYYYMMDDHHMMSS instead of Test_YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.txt.

But if you're willing to put up with that:

Code:
/usr/bin/gzip -9 -c -N "$1" > "${1%.txt}.gz"

and to restore it:
Code:
gunzip -N filename.gz

 

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LEARN ABOUT X11R4

gzforce

GZFORCE(1)						      General Commands Manual							GZFORCE(1)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       gzforce [ name ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       gzforce	forces a .gz extension on all gzip files so that gzip will not compress them twice.  This can be useful for files with names trun-
       cated after a file transfer.  On systems with a 14 char limitation 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.

SEE ALSO

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

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWgzip	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | External	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for gzip is available in the SUNWgzipS package.

																	GZFORCE(1)
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