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<html> <head> <title>zforce</title> <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="zforce"> </head> <body BGCOLOR="#ffffff" LINK="#0000ff" VLINK="#0000ff" ALINK="#0000ff" TEXT="#000000"> <center> <h1><b>zforce</b></h1></center> <PRE> <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/ZFORCE">ZFORCE(1)</A></STRONG> General Commands Manual <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/ZFORCE">ZFORCE(1)</A></STRONG> NAME zforce - force a '.gz' extension on all gzip files SYNOPSIS zforce [ name ... ] DESCRIPTION zforce 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 <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/gzip">gzip(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/znew">znew(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/zmore">zmore(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/zgrep">zgrep(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/zdiff">zdiff(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/gzexe">gzexe(1)</A></STRONG> <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/ZFORCE">ZFORCE(1)</A></STRONG></PRE> <center> <h6>Man Pages Copyright Respective Owners. Site Copyright (C) 1994 - 2025 <a href="http://www.he.net">Hurricane Electric</a>. All Rights Reserved.</h6></center> </body> </html>