1.\" $NetBSD: zforce.1,v 1.2 2003/12/28 12:43:43 wiz Exp $ 2.\" $OpenBSD: zforce.1,v 1.1 2003/07/29 11:50:09 otto Exp $ 3.\" $DragonFly: src/usr.bin/gzip/zforce.1,v 1.2 2007/07/29 17:27:45 swildner Exp $ 4.\" 5.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net> 6.\" 7.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any 8.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above 9.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. 10.\" 11.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES 12.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 13.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR 14.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES 15.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN 16.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF 17.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. 18.\" 19.Dd July 29, 2003 20.Dt ZFORCE 1 21.Os 22.Sh NAME 23.Nm zforce 24.Nd force gzip files to have a .gz suffix 25.Sh SYNOPSIS 26.Nm 27.Ar 28.Sh DESCRIPTION 29The 30.Nm 31utility renames 32.Xr gzip 1 33files to have a 34.Sq .gz 35suffix, so that 36.Xr gzip 1 37will not compress them twice. 38This can be useful if file names were truncated during a file transfer. 39Files that have an existing 40.Sq .gz , 41.Sq -gz , 42.Sq _gz , 43.Sq .tgz 44or 45.Sq .taz 46suffix, or that have not been compressed by 47.Xr gzip 1 , 48are ignored. 49.Sh SEE ALSO 50.Xr gzip 1 51.Sh CAVEATS 52.Nm 53overwrites existing files without warning. 54