[Coastie]

I am trying to use gzip to compress a file, yet keep the original file without changing it to the *.gz file

Much like the -k switch with bzip2

is this possible with gzip?

[megaspaz]

Coastie, on Aug 2 2005, 06:45 PM, said:

I am trying to use gzip to compress a file, yet keep the original file without changing it to the *.gz file

Much like the -k switch with bzip2

is this possible with gzip?

send the output to stdout and redirect it to your target gzip file.

gzip -c file > file.gz

[Coastie]

that was not working for me, along with displaying garbage output on my screen, it also removed the original file turning it into the *.gz file.

I did come across this, and it has worked.

cat filename | gzip > filename.gz