PGZF(1)

📦 version 2.5, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🌸 PGZF — the manual, but make it cute

bestie, you found the manpage for pgzf (section 1 of the manual, user commands, iykyk). It's giving parallel gzip file IO and honestly? iconic.

✨ NAME ✨

pgzf — Parallel gzip file IO 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pgzf [options] file1 [file2 ...]

Like, you give it options, you give it files, it does the thing. Simple as that, no cap.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

OK so here's the tea, bestie:

  • PGZF: Parallel gzip file IO 🔥
  • Author: Jue Ruan <ruanjue@gmail.com> 🫶
  • Version: 1.1

That's the whole vibe. Let's get into the flags.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -d — Decompress mode 🫧. Flip it on and we're going backwards, babes.
  • -t <int> — Number of threads, default [8]. More threads = more main character energy.
  • -f — Force to overwrite 🙈. It will absolutely bulldoze what's already there.
  • -o <string> — Output file name, and yes, it supports a directory 📁.
  • -x — Delete input files after done 💀. Gone. Poof. No take-backs.
  • -b <int> — Block size in MB, 1 ~ 256, default [16] ✨.
  • -l <int> — Compress level, 1-9, see gzip, default [6] 🌈.
  • -h — Show this document 📖. Hi, you're reading it.
  • -V — Print version information and exit 👑. Then it dips.

📦 File format:

PGZF fellows standard GZIP format (rfc1952), and is blocked compressed ⭐. It defines two TAGs in each GZIP header:

  • ZS: block size
  • ZX: random access index

Program pgzf can decompress .pgzf and .gz files 🦋. When decompressing .gz files, pgzf is in fact a buffered gzip reader. Also, .pgzf files can be decompressed by program gzip — the friendship is mutual, besties 🫶.

In plan to support random access — it's coming, it's just not here yet, and we respect the journey 💜.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manpage was written by Andreas Tille for the Debian distribution and can be used for any other usage of the program. Slay. ✨

Reminder, bestie: every single flag above is real and every default is exact — don't come for me if you skip the -f and it refuses to overwrite, that's on the program, not on me 💅

That's the whole page, and this lil sign-off is brought to you by pgzf version 2.5, dated April 2020 — shoutout to the Debian crew, mwah 🎀💖✨

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