Re: What to do when not understanding man pages?
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>
> I'm having problems with two specific man pages at the moment - gunzip and
> dpkg-scanpackages.
>
> 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". Reading the man page seemed to indicate that was the _only_
> possible result? Is there no option for my desired result? [Of course a copy
> of original file could be made before unzipping it, but that seems a
> KLUDGE.]
gunzip -k owlett.gz
or
gunzip -c owlett.gz > owlett
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