SZIP(1)

🌸 SZIP(1) — the manual page for szip 1.0.0, but make it cute 🌸

okay bestie, buckle up — this is the tea on szip, and honestly? it's giving "gzip's cooler cousin who went to therapy." 💅

✨ NAME ✨

szip — manual page for szip 1.0.0. periodt.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

szip [FLAGS] [paths]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, szip 1.0.0 is by Andrew Gallant <jamslam@gmail.com> — shoutout to the icon who made this happen, we love a main character. 👑

here's the vibe: szip compresses and decompresses data in the Snappy format. that's it, that's the whole personality. ✨

szip works similarly to gzip (iykyk). it takes files as parameters, compresses them to a new file with a .sz extension, and removes the original. like, it literally absorbs the original file into the compressed one — but don't worry, file access and modification times are preserved, so your timestamps stay iconic. 🎀

alternatively, data can be sent on stdin and its compressed form will be sent to stdout. very demure, very pipeable. 🌈

the -d flag (short for --decompress) changes the mode from compression to decompression. ngl that one flag flips the whole entire operation, it's giving duality. 🦋

the --raw flag can be used for compressing/decompressing the raw Snappy format. but bestie, listen — note that this requires reading the entire input/output into memory. 😭 in general, you shouldn't use this flag unless you have a specific need to. it's not a "just for funsies" flag, fr fr. 💀

🌟 USAGE: 🌟

szip [FLAGS] [paths]

💅 FLAGS: 💅

• -d, --decompress — decompress data (default is compression). the switch-up queen herself. 👑
• -f, --force — force (de)compression even if the corresponding output file already exists. it does NOT care about your existing files, it's giving "move, i'm here." 🔥
• -h, --help — prints help information. when you're lost and need a little guidance, she's there. 🫶
• -k, --keep — keep (don't delete) input files during (de)compression. the emotionally secure option — no files left behind. 💖
• -r, --raw — use the "raw" Snappy format (no framing). lowkey a memory hog, proceed with intention. 🙈
• -V, --version — prints version information. for when you gotta know exactly which era of szip you're dealing with. ⭐

🎀 ARGS: 🎀

• <paths> — a list of file paths to compress (or decompress). it's a list, bestie, so you can bring your whole friend group of files. 🌸

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💜 reminder: those flags are literally the whole toolkit, no secret menu items. what you see is what you get.

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and that's the whole page, no cap. this was szip 1.0.0, dated May 2024, brought to you by the one and only Andrew Gallant <jamslam@gmail.com> — mwah, we stan. 🧚‍♀️💖✨