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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Gzip multiple Post 303035532 by Don Cragun on Monday 27th of May 2019 01:14:10 PM
Old 05-27-2019
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Originally Posted by tricampeon81
I am not convinced, I am ignorant in this problem so I ask for your help, as requested I am asked to use the gzip, I thought it could.
I am sorry that you don't believe us.

Have you looked at the man page for gzip? Does the man page for the version of gzip you are using say anything about it being able to zip multiple files into a single archive (other than by zipping an archive containing multiple files?

You are, of course, free to build your own utility similar to gzip that might be able to do what you want, but the resulting archive would not be able to be unzipped by any existing gunzip utilities to restore your original files in one step.

The file format used by gzip when creating a file with the .gz suffix contains information describing the data needed to decompress the data in that file. It does not contain a table of contents needed to enable it to contain multiple compressed files.

Creating additional threads is not going to solve your problem!
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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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