uncompress is a shell

Unix shell

A Unix shell is a command-line interpreter or shell that provides a traditional user interface for the Unix operating system and for Unix-like systems...

 command in Unix-like

Unix-like

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 environments.

The uncompress utility will restore files to their original state after they have been compressed using the compress

Compress

Compress is a UNIX compression program based on the LZC compression method, which is an LZW implementation using variable size pointers as in LZ78.- Description of program :Files compressed by compress are typically given the extension .Z...

 utility. If no files are specified, the standard input will be uncompressed to the standard output.

This utility supports the uncompressing of any files produced by compress

Compress

Compress is a UNIX compression program based on the LZC compression method, which is an LZW implementation using variable size pointers as in LZ78.- Description of program :Files compressed by compress are typically given the extension .Z...

. For files produced by compress on other systems, uncompress supports 9- to 16-bit compression.

Usage

The uncompress command options are specified like this:

uncompress switches files

Switches

uncompress has a number of command line options, or "switches", that can modify the output. Some of these options are

• -f: force. If given, uncompress will not prompt for overwriting files.
• -v: verbose. List all files as they are being uncompressed