kgb(1)

💖 kgb(1) — the KGB archiver, bestie edition 💖

General Commands Manual energy, but make it a group chat. This is kgb from the kgb manual, and yes she's a whole personality. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

kgb — your archiver for .kgb files, no cap 🗜️💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

kgb [-<m>] archive.kgb [filename  ...] [@files_listing @...]

kgb FILE.kgb

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So kgb is a file archiver and she is obsessed with compression rates — like, astronomically high compression. The catch? She's also high on CPU and memory cost. It's giving main character who eats your whole RAM for breakfast. 😭🔥

Bestie, that trade-off is the entire point. Tiny files, big hardware bill. That's just the vibe.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

💜 Compressing:

• -<m> — sets the compression level, which is literally also your memory usage. The values, in order:
  • 0: 2 MB (fastest) ⚡
  • 1: 3 MB
  • 2: 6 MB
  • 3: 18 MB (default) 👑
  • 4: 64 MB
  • 5: 154 MB
  • 6: 202 MB
  • 7: 404 MB
  • 8: 808 MB
  • 9: 1616 MB (best compression) 💀
• archive.kgb — the filename of your brand new KGB archive. And listen: it must not exist. If it already exists, this fails. No overwriting, no mercy. 🚫
• [filename ...] — a file, or a whole list of files, to compress. 🫶
• [@files_listing @...] — file(s) that contain a list of file names to compress, separated by a new line. Yes, one name per line, that's the whole deal. 📝

🌈 Uncompressing:

• FILE.kgb — the KGB archive you want to extract. That's it, that's the whole vibe. 🎁

💅 AUTHOR 💅

KGB Archiver v1.0b4, (C) 2005-2006 Tomasz Pawlak; Based on PAQ6 by Matt Mahoney; mod by Slawek <poczta-sn@gazeta.pl>. 🫶

This manual page was written by Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). 🌍

Okay and that's the whole page, periodt. 💖 This was the kgb(1) manual, dated March 2008, brought to you by KGB Archiver v1.0b4 — she's been iconic since 2005-2006 and she's not slowing down. Byeeee 🎀✨