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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).
  33 .PP
  34 It doesn't leave file extensions on the decompressed files.
  35 .SH AUTHOR
  36 Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>