In: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/compress/ there are copies of gzexe, zdiff, zforce, zmore, and znew shell scripts (from the Gzip package). Unlike the ones from the Gzip package these are not particularly portable to some systems, like SysV or SunOS, but they look like they will work in Linux. They're also actively maintained. The last cvs commit to the gzexe script added routines to check that we're not compressing files we need to decompress, like chmod, echo, sh, rm, basename, gzip, mktemp, and tail, as well as any programs in /bin or /sbin, and also check for hardlinks to these files. The paths to some of these programs needs to be altered for Linux, but otherwise the script should work. Several of these scripts also use mktemp.
robert
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