hzip(1)

💖 hzip — the General Commands Manual, but make it a group chat 💖

okay bestie so you found a .hz file and you're like "what even is this" — no worries, i got you. this is the manual page for hzip(1), from the General Commands Manual, and we're gonna read it together like it's a text from your favorite person. grab a strawberry 🍓 and let's go.

✨ NAME ✨

hunzip — decompress and decrypt hzip files to the standard output

like. it takes your hzip file, unzips the vibe, unlocks the secret, and yeets it straight to stdout. that's the whole personality. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hunzip [-h] file.hz [password]

that's it. that's the whole summoning circle. file first, password optional, flags if you're feeling spicy. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Hunzip is the decompression and decryption program of the hzip format.

so it's not just unzipping — it's unzipping and unlocking. it's giving locksmith but make it a decompressor. it's giving "i contain multitudes" but the multitudes are compressed. 🎀

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h — Display short help description. that's it, that's the option. one (1) single flag and she's iconic for it. 👑

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

hunzip file.hz >file

see how file.hz goes in and file comes out? redirect go brrr. this is the moment. this is the whole arc. 🫶

🧚 NOTES 🧚

okay so listen, this part is lowkey important so don't scroll past it:

Redirection of the standard output results platform-specific line terminating, so a compressed hzip file with new line terminators would be bigger with the extra CR characters of the decompression on Windows platforms.

translation bestie: when you redirect stdout, the line endings get handled by your platform, not by the file. so if you decompress on a Windows platform, those extra CR characters sneak in and your output ends up bigger than the original compressed thing was. it's giving "i gained weight on vacation" and honestly? relatable. 😭

not a bug, just the platform doing platform things. know it, love it, expect it.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• hunzip (1)
• hunspell(1)

go read those too, i promise they're worth it. iykyk. 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

László Németh.

we stan. we appreciate. we say thank you for the software. 💖

and that's the whole page, bestie!! slay ✨ this manual page is hzip(1) from 2008-06-12 — yes, it's been thriving since 2008 and it still eats 💅 no cap, the date on this one is 2008-06-12, and the page is filed under hzip(1). periodt. 🎀🦋🌸