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The gzip program compresses and decompresses files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77).

gunzip (GNU unzip) is the data decompression tool associated with the compression tool gzip (GNU zip). It can decompress files created by gzip, compress or pack.

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Unzip apparently split .gz, .sit or .tar archive

We have an old dictionary software that seems to store the data in an SQLite database (an SQLite executable is shipped with the SW). We want to extract this database to create a machine learning database. In the installed folder (on Windows), we…
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Is gunzip file1.gz file2.gz faster than looping over the files and gunziping each

I have a process that iterates through a list of files calling gunzip on each of them. Wondering would it be faster to just call the gunzip once on all the files. How does gunzip file1.gz file2.gz actually operate and is there a faster method for…
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Issue extracting a gz file on Linux

I downloaded a file with a .gz extension only. It should be a folder with more files inside but when I do $gunzip DOd.gz What I get is a binary file DOd without extensions. If I check what the file is I get $file DOd DOd: ELF 64-bit LSB executable,…
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Extracting gzip files over the network

I am using R.2.15.2 on Windows 7 and I cannot unzip a .gz file stored on the network. I am also using gnuwin32 (if it helps) The file is seen, so the location is ok system("ls") file1.bla.gz file2.bla.gz file3.bla.gz ... R)…
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How to tar a directory but exlude a file

I want to tar.gz a directory but want to exclude a big file? The is for intermediary extraction. Dump will be written to and will want to keep. E.g tar -zcf remote_test.tar.gz mydir/* except tsung.dump
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Extract file using bash script

I created a script which will extract all *.tar.gz file. This file is decompressed five times .tar.gz file, but the problem is that only the first *.tar.gz file is being extracted. for file in *.tar.gz; do gunzip -c "$file" | tar xf…
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How to gzip a file

How can I gzip this file? I get an error: find /users/tnea01/logfile10.log -type f -exec sh -c \ 'gunzip /users/tnea01/logfile_archive/$(basename $0)_$(date -r {} +%F).gz $0' {} \; Here is the error I get: gzip: /users/tnea01/logfile10.tar.gz: No…
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