gzexe

Compress executable files while keeping them executable. Back up the original file, appending ~ to its name and create a shell script that uncompresses and executes the binary inside it. More information: https://manned.org/gzexe.1.

• Compress an executable file in-place:

gzexe path/to/executable

• Decompress a compressed executable in-place (i.e. convert the shell script back to an uncompressed binary):

gzexe -d path/to/compressed_executable