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Re: What to do when not understanding man pages?



On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> When using gunzip I got an unexpected result. The result of "gunzip
>>> myfile.gz" was a single file named "myfile". What I expected/desired
>>> was to have two files on the disk - "myfile.gz" and "myfile". There
>>>  was only one - "myfile".
>>
>> gunzip -k owlett.gz
>
> I do not see a -k option in man page
> http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gunzip&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Debian+7.0+wheezy&format=html&locale=en
>>
>> or
>> gunzip -c owlett.gz > owlett

In Debian 8.


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