hzip(1)

hzip1

Compress and encrypt dictionary files

Usage

hzip [-h] [-P password] [file(s)]

Overview

hunzip is a small utility for text file compression and encryption, especially for sorted dictionaries. "hunspell filename" creates the compressed file "filename.hz" without removing the original file.

The compression algorithm uses 16-bit Huffman encoding and line-oriented prefix-suffix compression. It has good compression ratio for huge sorted word lists.

Options

-h

Display short help description.

-P password

Encrypted compression by an arbitrary length password.

Releases

10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 5.0–7
  2. 8–Arch

Author

László Németh.

From hunspell 1.7.5-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.