Compress (Unix)
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Revision as of 13:52, 29 February 2020
- This article is about a specific file format. For compression in general, see Compression.
compress is a Unix command line utility, and a general-purpose compressed file format. Its compression algorithm is based on LZW.
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Identifiers
The conventional filename extension is a capitalized .Z.
Identification
Files begin with bytes 1f 9d.
