Before I asked I tried the following in my home directory, containing a bunch of normal stuff.
$ find . -type f | xargs gzip -q - | wc -c

After a time and a lot of crunching it returned 60. Obviously wrong, given:

Where's your -c/--stdout so it can feed 'wc -c' ?


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