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<H1>GZEXE</H1>
Section: User Commands (1)<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
gzexe - compress executable files in place
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>gzexe</B>
<I>name ...</I>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
The
<I>gzexe</I>
utility allows you to compress executables in place and have them
automatically uncompress and execute when you run them (at a penalty
in performance). For example if you execute ``gzexe /usr/bin/gdb'' it
will create the following two files:
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1026675 Jun 7 13:53 /usr/bin/gdb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2304524 May 30 13:02 /usr/bin/gdb~
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/usr/bin/gdb~ is the original file and /usr/bin/gdb is the self-uncompressing
executable file. You can remove /usr/bin/gdb~ once you are sure that
/usr/bin/gdb works properly.
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This utility is most useful on systems with very small disks.
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<H2>OPTIONS</H2>
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<DT id="1"><B>-d</B>
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Decompress the given executables instead of compressing them.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+gzip">gzip</A>(1), <A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+znew">znew</A>(1), <A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+zmore">zmore</A>(1), <A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+zcmp">zcmp</A>(1), <A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+zforce">zforce</A>(1)
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<H2>CAVEATS</H2>
The compressed executable is a shell script. This may create some
security holes. In particular, the compressed executable relies
on the PATH environment variable to find
<I>gzip</I>
and some standard utilities
(<I>basename</I>,
<I>chmod</I>,
<I>ln</I>,
<I>mkdir</I>,
<I>mktemp</I>,
<I>rm</I>,
<I>sleep</I>,
and
<I>tail</I>).
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<H2>BUGS</H2>
<I>gzexe</I>
attempts to retain the original file attributes on the compressed executable,
but you may have to fix them manually in some cases, using
<I>chmod</I>
or
<I>chown</I>.
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<DT id="2"><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
<DT id="3"><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
<DT id="4"><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
<DT id="5"><A HREF="#lbAE">OPTIONS</A><DD>
<DT id="6"><A HREF="#lbAF">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
<DT id="7"><A HREF="#lbAG">CAVEATS</A><DD>
<DT id="8"><A HREF="#lbAH">BUGS</A><DD>
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