ZFORCE(1) | General Commands Manual | ZFORCE(1)

# NAME

`zforce` — force gzip files to have a .gz suffix

# SYNOPSIS

`zforce` | file ...

# DESCRIPTION

The `zforce` utility renames gzip(1) files to have a ‘.gz’ suffix, so that gzip(1) will not compress them twice. This can be useful if file names were truncated during a file transfer. Files that have an existing ‘.gz’, ‘-gz’, ‘_gz’, ‘.tgz’ or ‘.taz’ suffix, or that have not been compressed by gzip(1), are ignored.

# SEE ALSO

compress(1), gzip(1)

# CAVEATS

`zforce` overwrites existing files without warning.

May 31, 2007 | Debian