Re: gzip and .xxx.nodups files

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 06:37:25AM -0700, Bartel, Naomi R (N-Iroquoi Sys) wrote:
> I am using gzip 1.2.4 on an SGI and gzip 1.3 on LINUX.
> 
> I copy someone else's zipped file to $TMPDIR/tempfilename and use 'gzip -d
> -f  tempfilename' to unzip it.  I use it and when I am done I delete the
> file named 'tempfilename'.  I recently realized that not only is a temporary
> file created, but also another file called .tempfilename.nodups is also
> generated.

> Any insight you can give me into these *.nodups files would be greatly
> appreciated.

I tried to grep through gzip source for the string "nodups" and haven't
found anything.  So I guess it may appear in connection with the copying
of the file.  Which program do you use?  scp (openssh or ssh?), or
wget, or just cp (which cp? ``cp --version'' or SGI cp?)?

Hope this helps,
        Stepan Kasal