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GZIP(1)                     General Commands Manual                    GZIP(1)

NAME
     gzip, gunzip, zcat - compression/decompression tool using Lempel-Ziv
     coding (LZ77)

SYNOPSIS
     gzip [-cdfhlNnqrtVv] [-S suffix] file [file [...]]
     gunzip [-cfhNqrtVv] [-S suffix] file [file [...]]
     zcat [-fhV] file [file [...]]

DESCRIPTION
     The gzip program compresses and decompresses files using Lempel-Ziv
     coding (LZ77).  If no files are specified, gzip will compress from
     standard input, or decompress to standard output.  When in compression
     mode, each file will be replaced with another file with the suffix, set
     by the -S suffix option, added, if possible.  In decompression mode, each
     file will be checked for existence, as will the file with the suffix
     added.

     If invoked as gunzip then the -d option is enabled.  If invoked as zcat
     or gzcat then both the -c and -d options are enabled.

     This version of gzip is also capable of decompressing files compressed
     using compress(1), bzip2(1), lzip, or xz(1).

OPTIONS
     The following options are available:

     -1, --fast

     -2

     -3

     -4

     -5

     -6

     -7

     -8

     -9, --best        These options change the compression level used, with
                       the -1 option being the fastest, with less compression,
                       and the -9 option being the slowest, with optimal
                       compression.  The default compression level is 6.

     -c, --stdout, --to-stdout
                       This option specifies that output will go to the
                       standard output stream, leaving files intact.

     -d, --decompress, --uncompress
                       This option selects decompression rather than
                       compression.

     -f, --force       This option turns on force mode.  This allows files
                       with multiple links, overwriting of pre-existing files,
                       reading from or writing to a terminal, and when
                       combined with the -c option, allowing non-compressed
                       data to pass through unchanged.

     -h, --help        This option prints a usage summary and exits.

     -k, --keep        This option prevents gzip from deleting input files
                       after (de)compression.

     -l, --list        This option displays information about the file's
                       compressed and uncompressed size, ratio, uncompressed
                       name.  With the -v option, it also displays the
                       compression method, CRC, date and time embedded in the
                       file.

     -N, --name        This option causes the stored filename in the input
                       file to be used as the output file.

     -n, --no-name     This option stops the filename and timestamp from being
                       stored in the output file.

     -q, --quiet       With this option, no warnings or errors are printed.

     -r, --recursive   This option is used to gzip the files in a directory
                       tree individually, using the fts(3) library.

     -S suffix, --suffix suffix
                       This option changes the default suffix from .gz to
                       suffix.

     -t, --test        This option will test compressed files for integrity.

     -V, --version     This option prints the version of the gzip program.

     -v, --verbose     This option turns on verbose mode, which prints the
                       compression ratio for each file compressed.

ENVIRONMENT
     If the environment variable GZIP is set, it is parsed as a white-space
     separated list of options handled before any options on the command line.
     Options on the command line will override anything in GZIP.

EXIT STATUS
     The gzip utility exits 0 on success, 1 on errors, and 2 if a warning
     occurs.

SIGNALS
     gzip responds to the following signals:

     SIGINFO
             Report progress to standard error.

SEE ALSO
     bzip2(1), compress(1), xz(1), fts(3), zlib(3)

HISTORY
     The gzip program was originally written by Jean-loup Gailly, licensed
     under the GNU Public Licence.  Matthew R. Green wrote a simple front end
     for NetBSD 1.3 distribution media, based on the freely re-distributable
     zlib library.  It was enhanced to be mostly feature-compatible with the
     original GNU gzip program for NetBSD 2.0.

     This manual documents NetBSD gzip version 20170803.

AUTHORS
     This implementation of gzip was written by Matthew R. Green
     <mrg@eterna.com.au>.

NetBSD 10.99                    January 8, 2017                   NetBSD 10.99