Curt: > On 2013-11-04, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: >>> >>> gunzip -c myfile.gz > myfile >> >> <GRIN> It's been too long since I used CP/M-80. Piping and >> redirection was routine. > > Seems like he got it bassakwards to me: > > gunzip -c myfile > myfile.gz
I think /you/ got it backwards. :) It's gunzip, not gzip.
> It's in the ADVANCED USAGE section of the man page.
>
> cat file1 file2 | gzip > foo.gz
What is not explicitly stated in this section is that you cannot restore
file1 and file2 from this example. You only get a concatenation of both.
J.
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