#Photosync keep original file date zip file#

This option is useful on systems which have a limit on file name length or when the time stamp has been lost afterĪnd since you called it -1 when you created it (which was stored because -N is the default on compression), it was decompressed to that name (because -n is the default for decompressing). When decompressing, restore the original file nameĪnd time stamp if present. When compressing, always save the original file name and time stamp this is the default. This option is the default when decompressing. Truncated.) When decompressing, do not restore the original file name if present (remove only the gzip suffix from the compressed file name)Īnd do not restore the original time stamp if present (copy it from the compressed file). (The original name is always saved if the name had to be When compressing, do not save the original file name and time stamp by default. Yes, just learned today that gzip doesn’t restore the original filename by default (and I don’t think -k changes this behaviour, but I don’t have a -k so can’t test). rw-r-r- 1 oracle oinstall 0 Oct 21 06:20 Friday-Comic-1.jpg rw-r-r- 1 oracle oinstall 37 Oct 21 06:20 tmp]$ rm tmp]$ gunzip tmp]$ ls -lhrt total 4.0K rw-r-r- 1 oracle oinstall 0 Oct 21 06:20 Friday-Comic.jpg

#Photosync keep original file date zip file#

If you try to unzip any zip file it will not be renamed to original filename – in this case it will be Friday-Comic-1.jpg and not Friday-Comic.jpg.Īny idea why tmp]$ touch tmp]$ ls -lh Friday-Comic.jpg -rw-r-r- 1 oracle oinstall 0 Oct 21 06:20 tmp]$ gzip -c Friday-Comic.jpg > tmp]$ ls -lhrt total 8.0Kĭrwxr-x- 3 oracle oinstall 4.0K Oct 14 07:40 CVU_19.0.0.0.0_oracleĭrwxr-x- 2 oracle oinstall 6 Oct 19 14:26 hsperfdata_oracle What will be filename of unzipped file ?It should be the filename which you zipped right ? 🥺 Was this helpful? Please add your comment below to show your appreciation or feedback ↓ Join the nixCraft community via RSS Feed, Email Newsletter or follow on Twitter. He wrote more than 7k+ posts and helped numerous readers to master IT topics.

Vivek Gite is the founder of nixCraft, the oldest running blog about Linux and open source. For more erudition, see the gzip command command man page by typing the following man command: To avoid that, we can pass the option or use the shell redirection. gz while keeping the same ownership modes, access, and modification times. Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the extension. We learned that Linux and Unix’s gzip command reduces the named files’ size using the Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77) algorithm. Synchronous output (safer if system crashes, but slower) Save or restore the original name and timestamp

Write on standard output, keep original files unchangedįorce overwrite of output file and compress linksĭo not save or restore the original name and timestamp Linux gzip/gunzip command-line summary Option Read man pages by tying the following commands: This option is useful on systems which have a limit on file name length or when the timestamp has been lost after a file transfer. When decompressing, restore the original file name and timestamp if present. Pass the -N option when compressing, always save the original file name and timestamp this is the default. Remove only the gzip suffix from the compressed file name and do not restore the original timestamp if present (copy it from the compressed file). When decompressing, do not restore the original file name if present. The original name is always saved if the name had to be truncated. Pass the -n option when compressing, ask gzip /gunzip, not to save the original file name and timestamp by default. Gzip -keep my-filename.doc The -n and -Noption Fig.01: Tell gzip command to keep original file on Unix or Linux systemĪs I said earlier the simplest option is to either pass the -k or -kbd option: