Commit 7c817e62 authored by Stéphane Wirtel's avatar Stéphane Wirtel Committed by Julien Palard

bpo-34913: Document gzip command line interface (GH-9782)

parent e8bbc52d
......@@ -211,3 +211,38 @@ Example of how to GZIP compress a binary string::
The basic data compression module needed to support the :program:`gzip` file
format.
Command Line Interface
----------------------
The :mod:`gzip` module provides a simple command line interface to compress or
decompress files.
Once executed the :mod:`gzip` module keeps the input file(s).
.. versionchanged:: 3.8
Add a new command line interface with a usage.
Command line options
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
.. cmdoption:: file
.. code-block:: shell-session
$ python -m gzip file
If *file* is not specified, read from :attr:`sys.stdin`.
.. cmdoption:: -d, --decompress
Decompress the given file
.. code-block:: shell-session
$ python -m gzip -d file.gz
.. cmdoption:: -h, --help
Show the help message.
Add documentation about the new command line interface of the gzip module.
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