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Update list of installed programs for gzip

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-gzip" role="wrap">
9  <?dbhtml filename="gzip.html"?>
10
11  <title>Gzip-&gzip-version;</title>
12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip">
14    <primary sortas="a-Gzip">Gzip</primary>
15  </indexterm>
16
17  <sect2 role="package">
18    <title/>
19
20    <para>The Gzip package contains programs for compressing and decompressing
21    files.</para>
22
23  </sect2>
24
25  <sect2 role="installation">
26    <title>Installation of Gzip</title>
27
28    <para os="a">Prepare Gzip for compilation:</para>
29
30<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin</userinput></screen>
31
32    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
33
34<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
35
36    <para os="e">To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>
37
38    <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
39
40<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
41
42    <para os="h">Now we will move some of utilities to /usr/bin to meet FHS compliance:</para>
43
44<screen os="i"><userinput>mv /bin/z{egrep,cmp,diff,fgrep,force,grep,less,more,new} /usr/bin</userinput></screen>
45
46  </sect2>
47
48  <sect2 id="contents-gzip" role="content">
49    <title>Contents of Gzip</title>
50
51    <segmentedlist>
52      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
53
54      <seglistitem>
55        <seg>gunzip, gzexe, gzip, uncompress, zcat, zcmp, zdiff,
56        zegrep, zfgrep, zforce, zgrep, zless, zmore, and znew</seg>
57      </seglistitem>
58    </segmentedlist>
59
60    <variablelist>
61      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
62      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
63      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
64
65      <varlistentry id="gunzip">
66        <term><command>gunzip</command></term>
67        <listitem>
68          <para>Decompresses gzipped files</para>
69          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip gunzip">
70            <primary sortas="b-gunzip">gunzip</primary>
71          </indexterm>
72        </listitem>
73      </varlistentry>
74
75      <varlistentry id="gzexe">
76        <term><command>gzexe</command></term>
77        <listitem>
78          <para>Creates self-decompressing executable files</para>
79          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip gzexe">
80            <primary sortas="b-gzexe">gzexe</primary>
81          </indexterm>
82        </listitem>
83      </varlistentry>
84
85      <varlistentry id="gzip">
86        <term><command>gzip</command></term>
87        <listitem>
88          <para>Compresses the given files using Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) coding</para>
89          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip gzip">
90            <primary sortas="b-gzip">gzip</primary>
91          </indexterm>
92        </listitem>
93      </varlistentry>
94
95      <varlistentry id="uncompress">
96        <term><command>uncompress</command></term>
97        <listitem>
98          <para>Decompresses compressed files</para>
99          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip uncompress">
100            <primary sortas="b-uncompress">uncompress</primary>
101          </indexterm>
102        </listitem>
103      </varlistentry>
104
105      <varlistentry id="zcat">
106        <term><command>zcat</command></term>
107        <listitem>
108          <para>Decompresses the given gzipped files to standard output</para>
109          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zcat">
110            <primary sortas="b-zcat">zcat</primary>
111          </indexterm>
112        </listitem>
113      </varlistentry>
114
115      <varlistentry id="zcmp">
116        <term><command>zcmp</command></term>
117        <listitem>
118          <para>Runs <command>cmp</command> on gzipped files</para>
119          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zcmp">
120            <primary sortas="b-zcmp">zcmp</primary>
121          </indexterm>
122        </listitem>
123      </varlistentry>
124
125      <varlistentry id="zdiff">
126        <term><command>zdiff</command></term>
127        <listitem>
128          <para>Runs <command>diff</command> on gzipped files</para>
129          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zdiff">
130            <primary sortas="b-zdiff">zdiff</primary>
131          </indexterm>
132        </listitem>
133      </varlistentry>
134
135      <varlistentry id="zegrep">
136        <term><command>zegrep</command></term>
137        <listitem>
138          <para>Runs <command>egrep</command> on gzipped files</para>
139          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zegrep">
140            <primary sortas="b-zegrep">zegrep</primary>
141          </indexterm>
142        </listitem>
143      </varlistentry>
144
145      <varlistentry id="zfgrep">
146        <term><command>zfgrep</command></term>
147        <listitem>
148          <para>Runs <command>fgrep</command> on gzipped files</para>
149          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zfgrep">
150            <primary sortas="b-zfgrep">zfgrep</primary>
151          </indexterm>
152        </listitem>
153      </varlistentry>
154
155      <varlistentry id="zforce">
156        <term><command>zforce</command></term>
157        <listitem>
158          <para>Forces a <filename class="extension">.gz</filename> extension on
159          all given files that are gzipped files, so that <command>gzip</command>
160          will not compress them again; this can be useful when file names were
161          truncated during a file transfer</para>
162          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zforce">
163            <primary sortas="b-zforce">zforce</primary>
164          </indexterm>
165        </listitem>
166      </varlistentry>
167
168      <varlistentry id="zgrep">
169        <term><command>zgrep</command></term>
170        <listitem>
171          <para>Runs <command>grep</command> on gzipped files</para>
172          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zgrep">
173            <primary sortas="b-zgrep">zgrep</primary>
174          </indexterm>
175        </listitem>
176      </varlistentry>
177
178      <varlistentry id="zless">
179        <term><command>zless</command></term>
180        <listitem>
181          <para>Runs <command>less</command> on gzipped files</para>
182          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zless">
183            <primary sortas="b-zless">zless</primary>
184          </indexterm>
185        </listitem>
186      </varlistentry>
187
188      <varlistentry id="zmore">
189        <term><command>zmore</command></term>
190        <listitem>
191          <para>Runs <command>more</command> on gzipped files</para>
192          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zmore">
193            <primary sortas="b-zmore">zmore</primary>
194          </indexterm>
195        </listitem>
196      </varlistentry>
197
198      <varlistentry id="znew">
199        <term><command>znew</command></term>
200        <listitem>
201          <para>Re-compresses files from <command>compress</command> format to
202          <command>gzip</command> format&mdash;<filename
203          class="extension">.Z</filename> to <filename
204          class="extension">.gz</filename></para>
205          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip znew">
206            <primary sortas="b-znew">znew</primary>
207          </indexterm>
208        </listitem>
209      </varlistentry>
210
211    </variablelist>
212
213  </sect2>
214
215</sect1>
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