07-25-2003
IT WORKS! THANK YOU!
Okay, I am calm now but you have saved my behind so thank you!
Al.
Quote:
Originally posted by Perderabo
gzip -v9 -S .suf *.doc
says that the suffiz to use is .suf and the files to compress are *.doc. After that is finished you will have files that end in .doc.suf but for our purposes, the gzip suffix is .suf. That was a mistake, don't use -S. Let gzip pick its own suffix.
To decompess the result you need
gzip -d -S .suf <filelist>
where <filelist> is the list of files that you would like to decompress. To completely reverse what you did:
gzip -d -S .suf *.doc.suf
This may pick up a few files the were pre-existing with a name that ends in .doc.suf if you had any. But gzip will complain and move on to the next file.
And rather than "gzip -d", most of us would do "gunzip".
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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)