melt

Uncompress frozen files (UNIX)

Syntax:

melt [-cfvV] [filename...]

Options:

See freeze.

Description:

The melt utility is equivalent to freeze -d. See the freeze utility (Compress and uncompress files) for details.

The freeze/melt/fcat compression utilities will eventually become deprecated in favor of the GNU zip suite, gzip/gunzip/zcat. The freeze suite of utilities will continue to be provided for quite some time before being eliminated completely.

Contributing author:

Leonid A. Broukhis

See also:

freeze, gzip/gunzip/zcat