ZCK_READ_HEADER(1)

👑 ZCK_READ_HEADER(1) — the zchunk header gossip sesh

ok so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual section, and today's main character is zck_read_header 💅 she's a tiny little utility that peeks inside a zchunk file and spills the tea about what's in its header.

✨ NAME ✨

zck_read_header — display information from the header of a zchunk file 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

zck_read_header [-c | --show-chunks] [-f | --verify] [-q | --quiet]
                [-v | --verbose] file
zck_read_header -? | --help | --usage | --version

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so, the zck_read_header utility reads a zchunk file's header and displays some of the information recorded there. that's it, that's the job, and she does it flawlessly no cap 🎀

The zck_read_header utility accepts the following optional arguments:

• -c, --show-chunks — Display information about the individual chunks, too. like, ALL the chunks. she's nosy and we love that for her 💅
• -f, --verify — Instead of only reading the zchunk file's header, read the whole file and verify its integrity. she's not just skimming the header anymore, she's reading the entire thing fr fr 🔍
• -q, --quiet — Quiet operation; only display error messages. lowkey mode activated 🤫
• -v, --verbose — Verbose operation; display some diagnostic output. highkey mode activated, she will NOT stop talking 📢
• -?, --help — Display program usage information and exit.
• --usage — Display brief program usage information and exit. the short version, the tl;dr 🫶
• --version — Display program version information and exit.

🚪 EXIT STATUS 🚪

The zck_read_header utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. so like, zero means she ate, anything above zero means something went wrong 😭

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Examine a zchunk file's header:

zck_delta_size doc.txt.zck

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

unzck(1), zck(1), zck_delta_size(1), zck_gen_zdict(1), zckdl(1)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

The zck_read_header utility was written by Jonathan Dieter <jdieter@gmail.com>. This manual page stub was written by Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>.

and that's the whole page bestie!! this one shipped with Debian, dated May 31, 2020, under the ZCK_READ_HEADER(1) title in the General Commands Manual. slay, go read some headers, ily, bye 💖✨🎀