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1 | .TH z 1 "18 February 1999" "Edgeware tools" |
2 | .SH NAME |
3 | z \- run shell commands on compressed files |
4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
5 | .B z |
6 | .I command |
7 | .RI [ arguments ...] |
8 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
9 | The |
10 | .B z |
11 | script examines the shell command passed to it for filenames which look |
12 | as if they're compressed files. For each one that it finds, it |
13 | decompresses the file into a temporary place, and replaces the |
14 | compressed file's name in the command line with the name of the |
15 | decompressed version. When the command terminates, |
16 | .B z |
17 | deletes the decompressed files and exits. |
18 | .SH BUGS |
19 | The |
20 | .B z |
21 | program is a very simple |
22 | .B bash |
23 | shell script. As a result there are a number of limitations: |
24 | .PP |
25 | Changes made to the temporary decompressed files are ignored: the |
26 | original is left unchanged. |
27 | .PP |
28 | Nonexistent files cause errors to be reported. |
29 | .PP |
30 | The decompressed versions of files are always created with default |
31 | owner, group and permissions (as set by the current euid, egid and umask |
32 | settings). |
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33 | .PP |
34 | It doesn't leave file extensions on the decompressed files. |
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35 | .SH AUTHOR |
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36 | Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> |