z/OS V1R9.0 UNIX System Services Command ... - Christian Grothoff

Options
Localization
Exit Values
Portability
–c Writes uncompressed output to the standard output (like zcat).
–D Must be used to uncompress a sorted dictionary file compressed using the
–D option of compress.
–f Forces file to be uncompressed, regardless of whether a file with the same
base name already exists.
–V Prints version number information for uncompress.
–v Displays name of each file when it is uncompressed.
uncompress uses the following localization environment variables:
v LANG
v LC_ALL
v LC_CTYPE
v LC_MESSAGES
v NLSPATH
See Appendix F for more information.
0 Successful completion
1 Failure due to any of the following:
v Unknown command-line option
v Inability to obtain information about an argument file
v File has more than one link
v File is not a regular file
v File is not in compressed format
v File was compressed using more than 16 bits
v There is no space for decompress tables
v A compressed file is corrupt
uncompress is found on many UNIX systems.
The –D option is an extension to traditional implementations of uncompress; the
–D and –V options are extensions to the POSIX standard.
Related Information
compress, cpio, pack, unpack, zcat
unexpand — Compress spaces into tabs
Format
Description
unexpand [–a] [–t tablist] [file ...]
uncompress
unexpand replaces blank characters in the data from each file argument with the
most efficient use of tabs and spaces. If you do not specify any files, unexpand
reads the standard input. The result is sent to standard output.
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