Cada comando tem seus próprios parâmetros.
Você pode ver o que eles estão executando man command
.
man gzip
-N --name
When compressing, always save the original file name and time
stamp; this is the default. When decompressing, restore the
original file name and time stamp if present. This option is
useful on systems which have a limit on file name length or when
the time stamp has been lost after a file transfer.