BOOK/chapter08/gzip.xml

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   7
   8 <sect1 id="ch-system-gzip" role="wrap">
   9   <?dbhtml filename="gzip.html"?>
  10
  11   <sect1info condition="script">
  12     <productname>gzip</productname>
  13     <productnumber>&gzip-version;</productnumber>
  14     <address>&gzip-url;</address>
  15   </sect1info>
  16
  17   <title>Gzip-&gzip-version;</title>
  18
  19   <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip">
  20     <primary sortas="a-Gzip">Gzip</primary>
  21   </indexterm>
  22
  23   <sect2 role="package">
  24     <title/>
  25
  26     <para>The Gzip package contains programs for compressing and decompressing
  27     files.</para>
  28
  29     <segmentedlist>
  30       <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  31       <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  32
  33       <seglistitem>
  34         <seg>&gzip-fin-sbu;</seg>
  35         <seg>&gzip-fin-du;</seg>
  36       </seglistitem>
  37     </segmentedlist>
  38
  39   </sect2>
  40
  41   <sect2 role="installation">
  42     <title>Installation of Gzip</title>
  43
  44     <para>Prepare Gzip for compilation:</para>
  45
  46 <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
  47
  48     <para>Compile the package:</para>
  49
  50 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  51
  52     <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
  53
  54 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
  55
  56     <para>Install the package:</para>
  57
  58 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
  59
  60     <para>Move a program that needs to be on the root filesystem:</para>
  61
  62 <screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/bin/gzip /bin</userinput></screen>
  63
  64   </sect2>
  65
  66   <sect2 id="contents-gzip" role="content">
  67     <title>Contents of Gzip</title>
  68
  69     <segmentedlist>
  70       <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
  71
  72       <seglistitem>
  73         <seg>gunzip, gzexe, gzip, uncompress (hard link with gunzip), zcat, zcmp,
  74         zdiff, zegrep, zfgrep, zforce, zgrep, zless, zmore, and znew</seg>
  75       </seglistitem>
  76     </segmentedlist>
  77
  78     <variablelist>
  79       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
  80       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
  81       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
  82
  83       <varlistentry id="gunzip">
  84         <term><command>gunzip</command></term>
  85         <listitem>
  86           <para>Decompresses gzipped files</para>
  87           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip gunzip">
  88             <primary sortas="b-gunzip">gunzip</primary>
  89           </indexterm>
  90         </listitem>
  91       </varlistentry>
  92
  93       <varlistentry id="gzexe">
  94         <term><command>gzexe</command></term>
  95         <listitem>
  96           <para>Creates self-decompressing executable files</para>
  97           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip gzexe">
  98             <primary sortas="b-gzexe">gzexe</primary>
  99           </indexterm>
 100         </listitem>
 101       </varlistentry>
 102
 103       <varlistentry id="gzip">
 104         <term><command>gzip</command></term>
 105         <listitem>
 106           <para>Compresses the given files using Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) coding</para>
 107           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip gzip">
 108             <primary sortas="b-gzip">gzip</primary>
 109           </indexterm>
 110         </listitem>
 111       </varlistentry>
 112
 113       <varlistentry id="uncompress">
 114         <term><command>uncompress</command></term>
 115         <listitem>
 116           <para>Decompresses compressed files</para>
 117           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip uncompress">
 118             <primary sortas="b-uncompress">uncompress</primary>
 119           </indexterm>
 120         </listitem>
 121       </varlistentry>
 122
 123       <varlistentry id="zcat">
 124         <term><command>zcat</command></term>
 125         <listitem>
 126           <para>Decompresses the given gzipped files to standard output</para>
 127           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zcat">
 128             <primary sortas="b-zcat">zcat</primary>
 129           </indexterm>
 130         </listitem>
 131       </varlistentry>
 132
 133       <varlistentry id="zcmp">
 134         <term><command>zcmp</command></term>
 135         <listitem>
 136           <para>Runs <command>cmp</command> on gzipped files</para>
 137           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zcmp">
 138             <primary sortas="b-zcmp">zcmp</primary>
 139           </indexterm>
 140         </listitem>
 141       </varlistentry>
 142
 143       <varlistentry id="zdiff">
 144         <term><command>zdiff</command></term>
 145         <listitem>
 146           <para>Runs <command>diff</command> on gzipped files</para>
 147           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zdiff">
 148             <primary sortas="b-zdiff">zdiff</primary>
 149           </indexterm>
 150         </listitem>
 151       </varlistentry>
 152
 153       <varlistentry id="zegrep">
 154         <term><command>zegrep</command></term>
 155         <listitem>
 156           <para>Runs <command>egrep</command> on gzipped files</para>
 157           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zegrep">
 158             <primary sortas="b-zegrep">zegrep</primary>
 159           </indexterm>
 160         </listitem>
 161       </varlistentry>
 162
 163       <varlistentry id="zfgrep">
 164         <term><command>zfgrep</command></term>
 165         <listitem>
 166           <para>Runs <command>fgrep</command> on gzipped files</para>
 167           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zfgrep">
 168             <primary sortas="b-zfgrep">zfgrep</primary>
 169           </indexterm>
 170         </listitem>
 171       </varlistentry>
 172
 173       <varlistentry id="zforce">
 174         <term><command>zforce</command></term>
 175         <listitem>
 176           <para>Forces a <filename class="extension">.gz</filename> extension on
 177           all given files that are gzipped files, so that <command>gzip</command>
 178           will not compress them again; this can be useful when file names were
 179           truncated during a file transfer</para>
 180           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zforce">
 181             <primary sortas="b-zforce">zforce</primary>
 182           </indexterm>
 183         </listitem>
 184       </varlistentry>
 185
 186       <varlistentry id="zgrep">
 187         <term><command>zgrep</command></term>
 188         <listitem>
 189           <para>Runs <command>grep</command> on gzipped files</para>
 190           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zgrep">
 191             <primary sortas="b-zgrep">zgrep</primary>
 192           </indexterm>
 193         </listitem>
 194       </varlistentry>
 195
 196       <varlistentry id="zless">
 197         <term><command>zless</command></term>
 198         <listitem>
 199           <para>Runs <command>less</command> on gzipped files</para>
 200           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zless">
 201             <primary sortas="b-zless">zless</primary>
 202           </indexterm>
 203         </listitem>
 204       </varlistentry>
 205
 206       <varlistentry id="zmore">
 207         <term><command>zmore</command></term>
 208         <listitem>
 209           <para>Runs <command>more</command> on gzipped files</para>
 210           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zmore">
 211             <primary sortas="b-zmore">zmore</primary>
 212           </indexterm>
 213         </listitem>
 214       </varlistentry>
 215
 216       <varlistentry id="znew">
 217         <term><command>znew</command></term>
 218         <listitem>
 219           <para>Re-compresses files from <command>compress</command> format to
 220           <command>gzip</command> format&mdash;<filename
 221           class="extension">.Z</filename> to <filename
 222           class="extension">.gz</filename></para>
 223           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip znew">
 224             <primary sortas="b-znew">znew</primary>
 225           </indexterm>
 226         </listitem>
 227       </varlistentry>
 228
 229     </variablelist>
 230
 231   </sect2>
 232
 233 </sect1>