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Asked: 2011-06-09 08:41:45 +0800 CST

Weird Characters On gzip Package

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I'm trying to gzip my js files which in js folder.

gzip -cr js

I'm using this command on Terminal but this is result:

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What do you think, what's the problem ? MAybe UTF8 encoding?

gzip

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The -c switch tells gzip to write the compressed files to stdout. So this funny characters you see are just the compressed content of your files.

    Use gzip -r js instead.

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