Enhancement request: add a -k (keep) option like bzip2
From:
Neil Mayhew
Subject:
Enhancement request: add a -k (keep) option like bzip2
Date:
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:24:51 -0600
User-agent:
Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421)
Sometimes it's useful to be able to keep the original file around.
Currently, the only way to keep the original file is either to copy it,
which is wasteful, or to use stdin/stdout redirection, which doesn't
preserve the modification time and requires the user to give the output
file name explicitly, which is error-prone and annoying. I assume gzip
does an unlink of the original file at the end, so the unlink option
would just request that this not be done.
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