Consider this:
$text = "hello";
$text_compressed = gzcompress($text, 6);
$success = file_put_contents('file.gz', $text_compressed);
When i try to open file.gz, i get errors. How can i open file.gz under terminal without calling php? (using gzuncompress works just fine!)
I can’t recode every file i did, since that i now have almost a Billion files encoded this way! So if there is a solution… 🙂
As said, you don’t really have gzipped files. To open your files from a terminal you need the uncompress utility.