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diff --git a/chapter06/gzip.xml b/chapter06/gzip.xml index ea1c677b1..e7e35fa3f 100644 --- a/chapter06/gzip.xml +++ b/chapter06/gzip.xml @@ -3,13 +3,15 @@ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> %general-entities; ]> -<sect1 id="ch-system-gzip" xreflabel="Gzip" role="wrap"> +<sect1 id="ch-system-gzip" role="wrap"> <title>Gzip-&gzip-version;</title> <?dbhtml filename="gzip.html"?> <indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip"><primary sortas="a-Gzip">Gzip</primary></indexterm> <sect2 role="package"><title/> +<para>The Gzip package contains programs for compressing and decompressing +files.</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> @@ -17,6 +19,11 @@ <seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>2.6 MB</seg></seglistitem> </segmentedlist> +<segmentedlist> +<segtitle>Gzip installation depends on</segtitle> +<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, +GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem> +</segmentedlist> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> @@ -26,7 +33,10 @@ <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen> -<para>Issue a sed command:</para> +<para>The <command>gzexe</command> script has the location of the +<command>gzip</command> binary hard-wired into it. Because the +location of the binary is changed later, the following command ensures +that the new location gets placed into the script:</para> <screen><userinput>sed -i 's@"BINDIR"@/bin@g' gzexe.in</userinput></screen> @@ -51,8 +61,134 @@ ln -s gunzip /bin/uncompress</userinput></screen> <sect2 id="contents-gzip" role="content"><title>Contents of Gzip</title> -<para>See testing</para> +<segmentedlist> +<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle> +<seglistitem><seg>gunzip (link to gzip), gzexe, +gzip, uncompress (link to gunzip), zcat (link to gzip), zcmp, zdiff, +zegrep, zfgrep, zforce, zgrep, zless, zmore, and znew</seg></seglistitem> +</segmentedlist> + +<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead> +<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?> + +<varlistentry id="gunzip"> +<term><command>gunzip</command></term> +<listitem> +<para>Decompresses gzipped files</para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip gunzip"><primary sortas="b-gunzip">gunzip</primary></indexterm> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry id="gzexe"> +<term><command>gzexe</command></term> +<listitem> +<para>Creates self-uncompressing executable files</para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip gzexe"><primary sortas="b-gzexe">gzexe</primary></indexterm> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry id="gzip"> +<term><command>gzip</command></term> +<listitem> +<para>Compresses the given files using Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) coding</para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip gzip"><primary sortas="b-gzip">gzip</primary></indexterm> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry id="uncompress"> +<term><command>uncompress</command></term> +<listitem> +<para>Decompresses compressed files</para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip uncompress"><primary sortas="b-uncompress">uncompress</primary></indexterm> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry id="zcat"> +<term><command>zcat</command></term> +<listitem> +<para>Uncompresses the given gzipped files to standard output</para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zcat"><primary sortas="b-zcat">zcat</primary></indexterm> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry id="zcmp"> +<term><command>zcmp</command></term> +<listitem> +<para>Runs <command>cmp</command> on gzipped files</para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zcmp"><primary sortas="b-zcmp">zcmp</primary></indexterm> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry id="zdiff"> +<term><command>zdiff</command></term> +<listitem> +<para>Runs <command>diff</command> on gzipped files</para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zdiff"><primary sortas="b-zdiff">zdiff</primary></indexterm> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry id="zegrep"> +<term><command>zegrep</command></term> +<listitem> +<para>Runs <command>egrep</command> on gzipped files</para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zegrep"><primary sortas="b-zegrep">zegrep</primary></indexterm> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry id="zfgrep"> +<term><command>zfgrep</command></term> +<listitem> +<para>Runs <command>fgrep</command> on gzipped files</para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zfgrep"><primary sortas="b-zfgrep">zfgrep</primary></indexterm> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry id="zforce"> +<term><command>zforce</command></term> +<listitem> +<para>Forces a <filename class="extension">.gz</filename> extension on all given files +that are gzipped files, so that <command>gzip</command> will not compress them again; this can be +useful when file names were truncated during a file transfer</para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zforce"><primary sortas="b-zforce">zforce</primary></indexterm> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry id="zgrep"> +<term><command>zgrep</command></term> +<listitem> +<para>Runs <command>grep</command> on gzipped files</para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zgrep"><primary sortas="b-zgrep">zgrep</primary></indexterm> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry id="zless"> +<term><command>zless</command></term> +<listitem> +<para>Runs <command>less</command> on gzipped files</para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zless"><primary sortas="b-zless">zless</primary></indexterm> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry id="zmore"> +<term><command>zmore</command></term> +<listitem> +<para>Runs <command>more</command> on gzipped files</para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip zmore"><primary sortas="b-zmore">zmore</primary></indexterm> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry id="znew"> +<term><command>znew</command></term> +<listitem> +<para>Re-compresses files from <command>compress</command> format to +<command>gzip</command> format—<filename class="extension">.Z</filename> +to <filename class="extension">.gz</filename></para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-gzip znew"><primary sortas="b-znew">znew</primary></indexterm> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> +</variablelist> </sect2> </sect1> + |