Quick links About pcat Syntax Examples Related commands Linux / Unix main page About pcat Compresses file. Syntax pcat file
| file | name of the file to compress |
Examples pcat myfile.txt - would pack the flile myfile.txt. No packing will occur if:
the file appears to be already packed
the file name has more than 14 - 2 bytes
the file has links
the file is a directory
the file cannot be opened
the file is empty
no disk storage blocks will be saved by packing
a file called file .z already exists
the .z file cannot be created
an I/O error occurred during processing.
Related commands cat compress pack zcat | |
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