From: Marc.Baudoin@hsc.fr (Marc Baudoin)
To: jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Helmut Jarausch)
Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: How to gunzip a binary on the fly
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 16:52:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Mutt.19961227165218.babafou@skiff.hsc.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jarausch-961227160137.A0117741@numa1>; from Helmut Jarausch on Dec 27, 1996 16:01:38 +0100
Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> écrit :
>
> does anybody know how to gunzip a gzipped binary file just for executing
> it.
Did you try gzexe (comes standard with gzip)? Its man page says:
[...]
NAME
gzexe - compress executable files in place
DESCRIPTION
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 /bin/cat'' it will create
the following two files:
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 9644 Feb 11 11:16 /bin/cat
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 24576 Nov 23 13:21 /bin/cat~
/bin/cat~ is the original file and /bin/cat is the self-
uncompressing executable file. You can remove /bin/cat~
once you are sure that /bin/cat works properly.
This utility is most useful on systems with very small
disks.
[...]
--
Marc Baudoin -=- <Marc.Baudoin@hsc.fr>
Hervé Schauer Consultants
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-12-27 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-12-27 15:01 Helmut Jarausch
1996-12-27 15:52 ` Marc Baudoin [this message]
1996-12-27 19:09 ` Szekeres Istvan
1996-12-27 20:03 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
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