07-25-2003
GZIP help, please!
Gurus,
My own stupidity (or ignorance...or both) put me in the situation I am in and I need help please:
1-My shell account (OS: HP UX v11) contains several work directories (/docs, /scripts...)
2-Our sysadmin has implemented aggressive disk quotas so I have to compress the files I put here to avoid running out of space.
3-I decided to teach myself how to use GZIP and, w/o thinking about trying it on a "dummy" file first, I did
>gzip -v9 -S .suf *.doc
on the 50 some files on my /docs directory. My files are all now successfully compressed with a "<filename>.doc.suf" suffix.
4-How do I de-compress those now? I have tried
>gzip -d -S .suf *doc
I get "unknown suffix -- ignored" 50 times
5-Same error msg if I try
>gzip -d *.suf OR
>gzip -d -S .suf *.doc OR
>gzip -d *.doc
I put myself in this stupid situation because of my carelessness. What am I do wrong here? Which syntax should I use?
PLEASE HELP!!!
Al.
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GZEXE(1) BSD General Commands Manual GZEXE(1)
NAME
gzexe -- create auto-decompressing executables
SYNOPSIS
gzexe [-d] file ...
DESCRIPTION
The gzexe utility uses gzip(1) to compress executables, producing executables that decompress on-the-fly when executed. This saves disk
space, at the cost of slower execution times. The original executables are saved by copying each of them to a file with the same name with a
'~' suffix appended. After verifying that the compressed executables work as expected, the backup files can be removed.
The options are as follows:
-d Decompress executables previously compressed by gzexe.
The gzexe program refuses to compress non-regular or non-executable files, files with a setuid or setgid bit set, files that are already com-
pressed using gzexe or programs it needs to perform on-the-fly decompression: sh(1), mktemp(1), rm(1), echo(1), tail(1), gzip(1), and
chmod(1).
SEE ALSO
gzip(1)
CAVEATS
The gzexe utility replaces files by overwriting them with the generated compressed executable. To be able to do this, it is required that
the original files are writable.
BSD
July 30, 2003 BSD