.ll +8
.B gzip
.RB [ " \-acdfhklLnNrtvV19 " ]
-.RB [ --rsyncable ]
.RB [ \-S\ suffix ]
[
.I "name \&..."
.I gunzip
).
.TP
-.B --rsyncable
-While compressing, synchronize the output occasionally based on the input.
-This increases size by less than 1 percent most cases, but means that the
-.BR rsync (1)
-program can take advantage of similarities in the uncompressed input
-when synchronizing two files compressed with this flag.
-.I gunzip
-cannot tell the difference between a compressed file created with this option,
-and one created without it.
-.TP
.B \-S .suf --suffix .suf
When compressing, use suffix .suf instead of .gz.
Any non-empty suffix can be given, but suffixes
When decompressing, add .suf to the beginning of the list of
suffixes to try, when deriving an output file name from an input file name.
.TP
+.B --synchronous
+Use synchronous output. With this option,
+.I gzip
+is less likely to lose data during a system crash, but it can be
+considerably slower.
+.TP
.B \-t --test
Test. Check the compressed file integrity.
.TP
The default compression level is
.BR \-6
(that is, biased towards high compression at expense of speed).
+.TP
+.B \-\-rsyncable
+When you synchronize a compressed file between two computers, this option allows rsync to transfer only files that were changed in the archive instead of the entire archive.
+Normally, after a change is made to any file in the archive, the compression algorithm can generate a new version of the archive that does not match the previous version of the archive. In this case, rsync transfers the entire new version of the archive to the remote computer.
+With this option, rsync can transfer only the changed files as well as a small amount of metadata that is required to update the archive structure in the area that was changed.
.SH "ADVANCED USAGE"
Multiple compressed files can be concatenated. In this case,
.I gunzip
transparently. gzip is designed as a complement to tar, not as a
replacement.
.SH "ENVIRONMENT"
-The environment variable
+The obsolescent environment variable
.B GZIP
can hold a set of default options for
.IR gzip .
-These options are interpreted first and can be overwritten by
-explicit command line parameters. For example:
- for sh: GZIP="-8v --name"; export GZIP
- for csh: setenv GZIP "-8v --name"
- for MSDOS: set GZIP=-8v --name
+These options are interpreted first and can be overwritten by explicit
+command line parameters. As this can cause problems when using
+scripts, this feature is supported only for options that are
+reasonably likely to not cause too much harm, and
+.I gzip
+warns if it is used.
+This feature will be removed in a future release of
+.IR gzip .
+.PP
+You can use an alias or script instead. For example, if
+.I gzip
+is in the directory
+.B /usr/bin
+you can prepend
+.B $HOME/bin
+to your
+.B PATH
+and create an executable script
+.B $HOME/bin/gzip
+containing the following:
-On Vax/VMS, the name of the environment variable is GZIP_OPT, to
+ #! /bin/sh
+ export PATH=/usr/bin
+ exec gzip \-9 "$@"
+
+On VMS, the name of the obsolescent environment variable is GZIP_OPT, to
avoid a conflict with the symbol set for invocation of the program.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
znew(1), zcmp(1), zmore(1), zforce(1), gzexe(1), zip(1), unzip(1), compress(1)
Recompress the file with gzip, which compresses better and uses
less memory.
.TP
-\fIfile\fP\^: already has .gz suffix -- no change
+\fIfile\fP\^: already has .gz suffix -- unchanged
The file is assumed to be already compressed.
Rename the file and try again.
.TP
for decompression,
.I gunzip
detects that there is extra trailing garbage after the compressed data
-and emits a warning by default. You have to use the --quiet option to
-suppress the warning. This option can be set in the
-.B GZIP
-environment variable as in:
- for sh: GZIP="-q" tar -xfz --block-compress /dev/rst0
- for csh: (setenv GZIP -q; tar -xfz --block-compr /dev/rst0
-
-In the above example, gzip is invoked implicitly by the -z option of
-GNU tar. Make sure that the same block size (-b option of tar) is used
-for reading and writing compressed data on tapes. (This example
-assumes you are using the GNU version of tar.)
+and emits a warning by default. You can use the --quiet option to
+suppress the warning.
.SH BUGS
The gzip format represents the input size modulo 2^32, so the
--list option reports incorrect uncompressed sizes and compression
compresses better than
.IR gzip .
.SH "COPYRIGHT NOTICE"
-Copyright \(co 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright \(co 1998-1999, 2001-2002, 2012, 2015-2016 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc.
.br
Copyright \(co 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly
.PP
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