zck_gen_zdict(1)

zck_gen_zdict1

Extract a dictionary and optionally the separate chunks from a zdict file

Usage

zck_gen_zdict [{-d directory | --dir=directory}] [{-v | --verbose}] file

zck_gen_zdict {-? | --help | --usage | --version}

Overview

The zck_gen_zdict utility reads the specified zchunk file, extracts the dictionary used during the compression, and optionally uncompresses the individual chunks into the specified directory.

The zck_gen_zdict utility accepts the following optional arguments:

-d, --dir

In addition to extracting the dictionary, uncompress the individual chunks as sequential files into the specified directory.

-v, --verbose

Verbose operation; display some diagnostic output.

-?, --help

Display program usage information and exit.

--usage

Display brief program usage information and exit.

--version

Display program version information and exit.

Exit status

The zck_gen_zdict utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

Examples

Extract a zchunk file's dictionary into the words.txt.zdict file:

zck_gen_zdict words.txt.zck

Extract the dictionary into words.txt.zdict and also the chunks into the chunks/ directory:

zck_gen_zdict -d chunks/ words.txt.zck

Releases

Unchanged in 4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye).

  1. 11–Arch

Author

The zck_gen_zdict utility was written by Jonathan Dieter ⟨[email protected]⟩. This manual page stub was written by Peter Pentchev ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From zchunk 1.5.4-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.