1.\" $OpenBSD: zforce.1,v 1.3 2007/05/31 19:20:09 jmc Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net> 4.\" 5.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any 6.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above 7.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. 8.\" 9.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES 10.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 11.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR 12.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES 13.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN 14.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF 15.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. 16.\" 17.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $ 18.Dt ZFORCE 1 19.Os 20.Sh NAME 21.Nm zforce 22.Nd force gzip files to have a .gz suffix 23.Sh SYNOPSIS 24.Nm zforce 25.Ar 26.Sh DESCRIPTION 27The 28.Nm 29utility renames 30.Xr gzip 1 31files to have a 32.Sq .gz 33suffix, so that 34.Xr gzip 1 35will not compress them twice. 36This can be useful if file names were truncated during a file transfer. 37Files that have an existing 38.Sq .gz , 39.Sq -gz , 40.Sq _gz , 41.Sq .tgz 42or 43.Sq .taz 44suffix, or that have not been compressed by 45.Xr gzip 1 , 46are ignored. 47.Sh SEE ALSO 48.Xr compress 1 , 49.Xr gzip 1 50.Sh CAVEATS 51.Nm 52overwrites existing files without warning. 53