gzip

Use gzip to compress a file.

Syntax

gzip filename

Views

User view

Predefined user roles

network-admin

mdc-admin

Parameters

filename: Specifies the name of the file to be compressed. The compressed file will be saved to file filename.gz.

Usage guidelines

This command deletes the specified file after compressing it.

Examples

# Compress the file system.bin.

1. Before compressing the file, you can display files whose names start with system.

   <Sysname> dir system.*
   Directory of flash:
      1 -rw-           0 May 30 2012 11:42:24   system.bin
   472972 KB total (472844 KB free)
   

2. Compress the file system.bin.

   <Sysname> gzip system.bin
   Compressing file system.bin... Done.
   

3. Verify the compress operation.

   <Sysname> dir system.*
   Directory of flash:
      1 -rw-          20 Jun 14 2012 10:18:53   system.bin.gz
   472972 KB total (472840 KB free)