Name
gzip
Synopsis
gzip [options
] [files
] gunzip [options
] [files
] zcat [options
] [files
]
Compresses specified files (or read from standard input) with Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). Renames compressed file to filename
.gz; keeps ownership modes and access/modification times. Ignores symbolic links. Uncompresses with gunzip, which takes all of gzip’s options, except those specified. zcat is identical to gunzip -c and takes the options -fhLV, described here. Files compressed with the compress command can be decompressed using these commands.
gzip doesn’t preserve resource forks or HFS metadata when compressing files that contain them.
Options
- -1 .. -9, --fast, --best
Regulate the speed of compression using the specified digit
n
, where -1 or --fast indicates the fastest compression method (less compression) and -9 or --best indicates the slowest compression method (most compression). The default compression level is -6.- -c, --stdout, --to-stdout
Print output to standard output, and don’t change input files.
- -d, --decompress, --uncompress
Same as gunzip.
- -f, --force
Force compression. gzip normally prompts for permission to continue when the file has multiple links, its .gz version already exists, or it is reading compressed data to or from a terminal.
- -h, --help
Display a help screen and then exit.
- -l, --list
Expects to be given compressed files as arguments. Files may be compressed by any of the following methods: gzip, deflate, compress, lzh, and pack. For each file, list uncompressed and ...
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