GZEXE(1) | General Commands Manual | GZEXE(1) |
gzexe
— create
auto-decompressing executables
gzexe |
[-d ] file ... |
The gzexe
utility uses
gzip(1) to compress executables,
producing executables that decompress on-the-fly when executed. This saves
disk space, at the cost of slower execution times. The original executables
are saved by copying each of them to a file with the same name with a
‘~’ suffix appended. After verifying that the compressed
executables work as expected, the backup files can be removed.
The options are as follows:
-d
gzexe
.The gzexe
program refuses to compress
non-regular or non-executable files, files with a setuid or setgid bit set,
files that are already compressed using gzexe
or
programs it needs to perform on-the-fly decompression:
sh(1),
mktemp(1),
rm(1),
echo(1),
tail(1),
gzip(1), and
chmod(1).
The gzexe
utility replaces files by
overwriting them with the generated compressed executable. To be able to do
this, it is required that the original files are writable.
January 26, 2007 | macOS 14.6 |