GZEXE(1) manual page
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gzexe - compress executable files in place
gzexe name ...
The
gzexe 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:
-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~
/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.
This utility is most useful on systems with very small disks.
- -d
- Decompress the given executables instead of compressing them.
gzip(1)
, znew(1)
, zmore(1)
, zcmp(1)
, zforce(1)
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
gzip and some standard utilities (basename, chmod, ln, mkdir, mktemp, rm,
sleep, and tail).
gzexe attempts to retain the original file attributes
on the compressed executable, but you may have to fix them manually in
some cases, using chmod or chown.
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