hunzip(1)

✨ hunzip ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the little tool that does the most 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

hunzip — compress and encrypt dictionary files 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

hzip [-h] [-P password] [file(s)]

(yes, the synopsis says hzip and the name says hunzip, we don't question the ancestors, we just respect the lore 🙈)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So hunzip is this tiny utility for compressing and encrypting text files, and it's especially obsessed with sorted dictionaries. Like, that's its whole personality and honestly? valid. 🍓

Here's the vibe: running hunspell filename creates the compressed file filename.hz, and it does not remove the original file. Your og stays safe, no cap. 💖

The compression algorithm is doing the absolute most: it uses 16-bit Huffman encoding plus line-oriented prefix-suffix compression. And the way that it gets a good compression ratio for huge sorted word lists?? iconic. genuinely ate. 🔥

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h — shows a short help description. that's it, that's the option. a little snack of information ✨
• -P password — encrypted compression, unlocked with a password of arbitrary length. yes bestie, any length you want, go feral 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• hzip (1)
• hunspell(1)

go say hi to the family 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

László Németh. the legend. the moment. the main character. 🎀

lowkey a reminder that this page is dated 2008-06-12 and lives under the manual name hunzip(1) in the General Commands Manual section — so yeah, it's been slaying since 2008 and it's still giving exactly what it needs to give 💖✨🦋 periodt