Gzips vs Grips - What's the difference?
gzips | grips |
(gzip)
(computing) To compress using the (gzip) program.
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As verbs the difference between gzips and grips
is that gzips is (gzip) while grips is (grip).As a noun grips is
.gzips
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(head)gzip
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(gzipp)- One way to deal with this issue is to add the compress command, which gzips the old logs as they are rotated.
- Image and PDF files should not be gzipped' because they are already compressed. Trying to ' gzip them not only wastes CPU resources, it can also potentially increase file sizes.
- Therefore, using the YUI Compressor in combination with gzipping always gives the best results.