Re: What to do when not understanding man pages?
On 2013-11-04, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>>
>> gunzip -c myfile.gz > myfile
>
><GRIN> It's been too long since I used CP/M-80. Piping and
> redirection was routine.
Seems like he got it bassakwards to me:
gunzip -c myfile > myfile.gz
It's in the ADVANCED USAGE section of the man page.
cat file1 file2 | gzip > foo.gz
in the case of multiple files (more compression for your bucks than
gunzip -c myfile1 myfile2 > myfile.gz)
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