## Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009 David Bateman
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{entries} =} gzip (@var{files})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{entries} =} gzip (@var{files}, @var{outdir})
## Compress the list of files and/or directories specified in @var{files}.
## Each file is compressed separately and a new file with a '.gz' extension
## is created.  The original files are not touched.  Existing compressed
## files are silently overwritten.  If @var{outdir} is defined the compressed 
## versions of the files are placed in this directory.
## @seealso{gunzip, bzip2, zip, tar}
## @end deftypefn

function entries = gzip (varargin)
  if (nargin == 1 || nargin == 2) && (nargout <= 1)
    if nargout == 0
      __xzip__ ("gzip", "gz", "gzip -r %s", varargin{:});
    else
      entries = __xzip__ ("gzip", "gz", "gzip -r %s", varargin{:});
    endif
  else
    print_usage ();
  endif
endfunction

%!error <Invalid call to gzip.  Correct usage is> gzip("1", "2", "3");
%!error <Invalid call to gzip.  Correct usage is> gzip();
%!error <output directory does not exist> gzip("1", tmpnam);
%!error <expecting FILES to be a character array> gzip(1);
%!xtest
%!  # test gzip together with gunzip
%!  unwind_protect
%!    filename = tmpnam;
%!    dummy    = 1;
%!    save(filename, "dummy");
%!    dirname  = tmpnam;
%!    mkdir(dirname);
%!    entry = gzip(filename, dirname);
%!    [path, basename, extension] = fileparts(filename);
%!    if ! strcmp(entry, [dirname, filesep, basename, extension, ".gz"])
%!      error("gzipped file does not match expected name!");
%!    endif
%!    if ! exist(entry, "file")
%!      error("gzipped file cannot be found!");
%!    endif 
%!    gunzip(entry);
%!    if (system(sprintf("diff %s %s%c%s%s", filename, dirname, filesep,
%!                                          basename, extension)))
%!      error("unzipped file not equal to original file!");
%!    end
%!  unwind_protect_cleanup
%!    delete(filename);
%!    delete([dirname, filesep, basename, extension]);
%!    rmdir(dirname);
%!  end_unwind_protect
