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ZFORCE(1)                              General Commands Manual                             ZFORCE(1)

NAME
       zforce - force a '.gz' extension on all gzip files

SYNOPSIS
       zforce [ name ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
       The  zforce  command  forces a .gz extension on all gzip files so that gzip will not compress
       them twice.  This can be useful for files with names truncated after  a  file  transfer.   On
       systems  with a 14 char limitation on file names, the original name is truncated to make room
       for the .gz suffix. For example, 12345678901234 is renamed to  12345678901.gz.  A  file  name
       such as foo.tgz is left intact.

SEE ALSO
       gzip(1), znew(1), zmore(1), zgrep(1), zdiff(1), gzexe(1)

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