ZNEW(1)

✨ ZNEW(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the znew page from the General Commands Manual 💖 no cap, this one's short and sweet and honestly kinda iconic.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

znew — the little tool that recompresses your .Z files into .gz files 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

znew [ -ftv9PK] [ name.Z ...  ]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So basically, znew takes files and recompresses them from .Z (that's compress format, the old-school one) into .gz (that's gzip format, the glow-up ✨).

And here's the little hack that lives in the description, fr fr: if you wanna recompress a file that's already in gzip format? You rename the file so it gets a .Z extension, and then you run znew on it. That's it. That's the trick. 🫶

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

• -f — Force the recompression from .Z to .gz format, even if a .gz file already exists. like, she's going through with it no matter what 💀
• -t — Tests the new files before deleting the originals. safety first, always 👑
• -v — Verbose mode. Displays the name and the percentage reduction for every file that gets compressed. not me needing the receipts 📉
• -9 — Uses the slowest compression method (which is also the optimal compression). slow and perfect, main character energy 🐌✨
• -K — Keeps a .Z file around when it turns out to be smaller than the .gz file. and yes, this implies -t 💖

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

gzip(1), zmore(1), zdiff(1), zgrep(1), zforce(1), gzexe(1), compress(1)

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🍓 go compress something and slay 💜

signing off from the znew(1) page of the General Commands Manual — no version or date on this one, she's timeless, iykyk 🧚‍♀️⭐