NAME
    gzexe - compress executable files in place

SYNOPSIS
    gzexe [ name ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
    The gzexe utility allows you to compress executables in place and have
    them automatically uncompress and execute when you run them (at a
    penalty in performance).  For example if you execute ``gzexe /bin/cat''
    it will create the following two files:
   -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin  9644 Feb 11 11:16 /bin/cat
   -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin  bin 24576 Nov 23 13:21 /bin/cat~
    /bin/cat~ is the original file and /bin/cat is the self-uncompressing
    executable file.  You can remove /bin/cat~ once you are sure that
    /bin/cat works properly.

    This utility is most useful on systems with very small disks.

OPTIONS
    -d   Decompress the given executables instead of compressing them.

SEE ALSO
   gzip(1),znew(1),zmore(1),zcmp(1),zforce(1)

CAVEATS
    The compressed executable is a shell script. This may create some secu-
    rity holes. In particular, the compressed executable relies on the PATH
    environment variable to find gzip and some other utilities (tail,
    chmod, ln, sleep).

BUGS
    gzexe attempts to retain the original file attributes on the compressed
    executable, but you may have to fix them manually in some cases,  using
    chmod or chown.