July 29, 2003 ZFORCE 1

### NAME

zforce - force gzip files to have a .gz suffix

### SYNOPSIS

zforce

### DESCRIPTION

The zforce utility renames gzip(1) files to have a `.gz' suffix, so that gzip(1) will not compress them twice. This can be useful if file names were truncated during a file transfer. Files that have an existing `.gz', `-gz', `_gz', `.tgz' or `.taz' suffix, or that have not been compressed by gzip(1), are ignored.

### SEE ALSO

gzip(1)

### CAVEATS

zforce overwrites existing files without warning.