Compress your 'man' pages to save space
Apr 12, '01 05:59:25PM
Contributed by: Anonymous
Run this command:
gzip -f /usr/share/man/man1/*
to save some disk space!
Re-run for man2 to man8... Also run on any other man directories you might have (like /usr/X11R6/man if you installed XFree86 or /usr/local/man if you installed lots of 3rd party UNIX software).
The command will compress the man pages, significantly reducing their space usage. after that, 'man' will be a bit slower because it has to decompress all the man pages before display, but it's worth it if you want some drive space back.
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