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Day 37: $ gzip

Leave a comment Posted by on January 10, 2011

ODOC: bala@bala:~ /home$ gzip
Gzip command is used to compress the files with the extension of .gz If no files
are specified, or if a file name is "-", the standard input is compressed to the standard
output.Gzip will only attempt to compress regular files. In particular, it will ignore
symbolic links.

For Example:
$ gzip file.txt

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