BZEXE(1)

💖 BZEXE(1) ✨ General Commands Manual ✨

🎀 NAME

bzexe - compress executable files in place 🫶

🧚 SYNOPSIS

bzexe [ name ...  ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION

okay so bzexe is literally the coolest trick 😭 it squishes your executables down in place and then they automatically unzip themselves and run when you open them. the catch? it costs you some performance 💀 but it's giving storage queen energy.

say you run bzexe /bin/cat 💅 it makes two files for you:

-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  bin   9644 Feb 11 11:16 /bin/cat
-r-xr-xr-x  1 bin   bin  24576 Nov 23 13:21 /bin/cat~

/bin/cat~ is the original file, and /bin/cat is the self-uncompressing executable 🦋 once you're sure /bin/cat works properly, you can delete /bin/cat~ 🗑️ no cap, that's the whole glow-up.

this tool is most useful on systems with very small disks 🥺 if your drive is tiny and crying, this is your bestie.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -d — the reverse glow-up 🔥 this decompresses the executables you give it instead of compressing them.

🌈 SEE ALSO

bzip2(1), znew(1), zmore(1), zcmp(1), zforce(1) 💜

⚠️ CAVEATS

⚠️ okay this part is serious bestie 🥹 the compressed executable is a shell script, and that may create some security holes 😭 specifically, it relies on the PATH environment variable to find gzip and some other utilities (tail, chmod, ln, sleep). so be careful about what your PATH is pointing at 🙈

🐞 BUGS

ngl this one is a little messy 💀 bzexe tries its best to keep the original file attributes on the compressed executable, but in some cases you may have to fix them yourself using chmod or chown 🫠 not me having to babysit file permissions 😤

🎀 that's the tea on BZEXE(1), bestie 💖 now go squish your binaries and slay the disk space 💅✨