gzrt ☆

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Description:
Gzip recovery toolkit

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: System utilities

Tags: compression data-recovery gzip cli utility

Install: brew install gzrt

About:
Gzrt is a command-line toolkit designed to recover data from corrupted gzip archives. It provides utilities to inspect and extract usable data from files that standard gzip tools cannot process. This makes it a valuable tool for data recovery specialists and users dealing with damaged archives.

Key Features:

Recovers data from corrupted gzip files
Provides low-level inspection of gzip structure
Command-line interface for scripting and automation
Focused utility for a specific data recovery task

Use Cases:

Recovering partial data from damaged gzip archives
Analyzing the structure of malformed gzip files
Data forensics and digital archaeology

Alternatives:

gzip – Standard tool for creating and decompressing gzip files, but fails on corruption
ddrescue – General-purpose data recovery tool for disk images, not specific to gzip format

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 12, 2025 6:22pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	15e8a840
Sep 13, 2024 4:21pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	b5bf3884