GENWQE_GUNZIP(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the genwqe_gunzip(1) girlies' corner 💅 this is genwqe_gunzip — the IBM Hardware Accelerator Tool. yes that's the whole name, she's lowkey mysterious, we love her ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

genwqe_gunzip [OPTION]... [FILE]...

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Compress or uncompress FILEs (by default, compress FILES in-place). fr fr, she does exactly what it says on the tin 🌸

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too — no skipping, bestie, the long flag needs its value and so does the short one, that's just the vibe 👑

• -c, --stdout — write on standard output, keep original files unchanged 🫶
• -d, --decompress — decompress 💜
• -f, --force — force overwrite of output file and compress links 😤
• -h, --help — give this help (yes, this is literally how you got here, iconic)
• -l, --list — list compressed file contents 📜
• -L, --license — display software license (the legal girlies ate)
• -N, --name — save or restore the original name and time stamp 🕰️
• -q, --quiet — suppress all warnings 🤫
• -S, --suffix=SUF — use suffix SUF on compressed files
• -v, --verbose — verbose mode (she will NOT stop talking, and honestly? same)
• -V, --version — display version number
• -1, --fast — compress faster 🏃‍♀️
• -9, --best — compress better 🌈

🧪 Special options for testing and debugging 🧪

these ones are not for the faint of heart, they're giving lab-coat energy ngl 🔬

• -A, --accelerator-type=GENWQE|CAPI — CAPI is only available for System p ⭐
• -B, --card=<card_no> — -1 is for automatic card selection 🎴
• -X, --cpu <cpu> — force to run on CPU <cpu> 💻
• -s, --software — force to use software compression/decompression (no hardware, just vibes) 🫠
• -i, --i_bufsize — input buffer size (128 KiB) 📥
• -o, --o_bufsize — output buffer size (512 KiB) 📤
• -N, --name=NAME — write NAME into gzip header ✍️
• -C, --comment=CM — write CM into gzip header 💬
• -E, --extra=EXTRA — write EXTRA (file) into gzip header 🎁

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. stdin girlies, this one's for you 🫶

NOTE: Not all options are supported in this limited version! Suggestions or patches are welcome! 😭 yes she said it, she's a limited girl but she's doing her best, and if you got hands you can send patches, periodt 💅

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🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

Report bugs via https://github.com/ibm-genwqe/genwqe-user. don't be shy, the maintainers are waiting 🙈

Code: zlibVersion()=1.3.1 Header: ZLIB_VERSION=1.3.1 consistent

Called with:

ARGV[0]: "./genwqe_gunzip"
ARGV[1]: "-h"

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it up 💖 this was genwqe_gunzip 4.0.20 from August 2025, and yeah that's the GENWQE_GUNZIP(1) user command manual — go compress something, slay, iykyk 🦋🌸👑