Linux and Unix pcat command
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Compresses file.
pcat file
| file | name of the file to compress |
pcat myfile.txt
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.
