zforce(1)

zforce1

Force gzip files to have a .gz suffix

Usage

zforce file ...

Overview

The zforce utility renames gzip(1) files to have a ‘.gz’ suffix, so that gzip(1) will not compress them twice. This can be useful if file names were truncated during a file transfer. Files that have an existing ‘.gz’, ‘-gz’, ‘_gz’, ‘.tgz’ or ‘.taz’ suffix, or that have not been compressed by gzip(1), are ignored.

Caveats

zforce overwrites existing files without warning.

Releases

87 releases since FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE; the text changed 34 times.

  1. 2.0.5–3.2
  2. 3.3–6.2
  3. 6.3
  4. 6.4
  5. 7.0
  6. 7.1
  7. 7.2
  8. 7.3
  9. 7.4
  10. 8.0
  11. 8.1
  12. 8.2
  13. 8.3
  14. 8.4
  15. 9.0
  16. 9.1
  17. 9.2
  18. 9.3
  19. 10.0
  20. 10.1
  21. 10.2
  22. 10.3
  23. 10.4
  24. 11.0
  25. 11.1
  26. 11.2
  27. 11.3
  28. 11.4
  29. 12.0
  30. 12.1
  31. 12.2
  32. 12.3
  33. 12.4
  34. 13.0–13.2
  35. 13.3–16.0

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.