ZFORCE(1)

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version 1.15 · 4 versions
, in alpine 3.22, alpine 3.23, alpine 3.24, arch rolling, centos-stream 10, centos-stream 9, debian bookworm, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

Okay bestie, this is zforce(1) from the General Commands Manual, and its whole job is to slap a .gz extension on all your gzip files ✨. The NAME line is: zforce - force a '.gz' extension on all gzip files

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

zforce [ name ...  ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so the zforce command makes sure every gzip file has a .gz extension 🫶. Why? So that gzip won't compress them twice 😭. This is lowkey clutch for files whose names got chopped up after a file transfer.

⚠️ On systems with a 14 char limitation on file names, the original name gets truncated to make room for the .gz suffix. For example, 12345678901234 is renamed to 12345678901.gz. Be careful, it's a little bit of a name glow-up gone wrong 💀.

A file name such as foo.tgz is left intact 🌸, because it already has its own vibe and doesn't need the .gz treatment.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Here's your squad of related commands, all totally iconic 👑:

Periodt, that's the whole page. Stay iconic, bestie, and see you in the ZFORCE(1) 🫶💖✨

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