Examples (4)
Recompress a file from `.Z` to gzip format
znew path/to/file1.ZRecompress multiple files and display the achieved size reduction % per file
znew -v path/to/file1.Z path/to/file2.Z ...Recompress a file using the slowest compression method (for optimal compression)
znew -9 path/to/file1.ZRecompress a file, [K]eeping the `.Z` file if it is smaller than the gzip file
znew -K path/to/file1.Zmade by @shridhargupta | data from tldr-pages