ZGZ(1)

💖 ZGZ 💖

okay bestie, welcome to zgz, section 1 of the manual — yes it's a real command, yes it's unhinged, no we are not okay about it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

zgz — literally Frankenstein's compressor 🧟♀️💀 like it's giving "built from spare parts" and honestly? iconic.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

zgz [options] < file > file.gz

that's it, that's the whole vibe — you pipe stuff in, you get gzip'd stuff out, slay 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. this program is an unholy combination 😭 of:

• the BSD gzip program,
• a modified GNU gzip that supports setting an arbitrary file name and timestamp ✨,
• and an old, rotting version of bzip2 that someone literally dug up somewhere at midnight 🌙 (not me. but also... me.)

and the way that only the bits to do with file compression were kept?? main character energy fr fr 👑

there are many arcane options 🔮 which aid pristine-gz(1) in re-animating files 🧚✨. use --help to see all the gory details 🩸 iykyk.

⚠️ bestie, "arcane" is not a joke here. these flags exist to resurrect dead files. do not freestyle. 😭

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

the legends responsible for this whole situation:

• Matthew R. Green
• Jean-loup Gailly
• Julian R Seward
• Faidon Liambotis
• Josh Triplett
• Joey Hess

and a note, straight up: several of the above donors would be very surprised at finding parts of themselves ... er, their work ... shambling around here 🧟 like bestie i'm so sorry 😭

please direct correspondence and/or flaming pitchforks 🔥🍴 to the pristine-tar maintainers. not us. never us. 💀

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and that's the whole page, babe — this lil' number is perl v5.38.2, dated 2024-04-01, filed under ZGZ(1) in section 1 of the manual 🎀 go forth and compress responsibly 🦋💜