gzip - Compress the specified FILEs
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Copyright
Copyright 2016 Eric Biggers
This program is free software which may be modified and/or redistributed under the terms of the MIT
license. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. See the COPYING file for details.
gzip compression program v1.23 January 2025 GZIP(1)
Description
Compress or decompress the specified FILEs.
Name
gzip - Compress the specified FILEs
Options
-1 fastest (worst) compression
-6 medium compression (default)
-12 slowest (best) compression
-c write to standard output
-d decompress
-f overwrite existing output files; (de)compress hard-linked files; allow reading/writing compressed
data from/to terminal; with gunzip -c, pass through non-gzipped data
-h print this help
-k don't delete input files
-q suppress warnings
-S SUF use suffix SUF instead of .gz
-t test file integrity
-V show version and legal information
Synopsis
libdeflate-gzip [-LEVEL] [-cdfhkqtV] [-SSUF] FILE...
