Unpacking or uncompressing gz files under Linux and UNIX systems

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 class="headline" itemprop="headline" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 40px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="color: red;"><u><i>Extract .gz file in linux</i></u></span></h1> <div> <br /></div> <div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 27px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> The .gz file extension are created using Gzip program which reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). gunzip / gzip is software application used for file compression. gzip is short for GNU zip; the program is a free software replacement for the compress program used in early Unix systems.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGXXBedKE2dlCxicQnuV-0CIJp2gsrChvWlbZBK9huQgthY8pG4lz7q3JiYj5JIA5vytX7i6quN2FMlLUZLDoKrGGyMVxgjZkz6Z3UxCmTo133CcLEgapjAxFtwsD1kkexyjkQr295uj7U/s1600/compressing_www.hackthesec.co.in.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGXXBedKE2dlCxicQnuV-0CIJp2gsrChvWlbZBK9huQgthY8pG4lz7q3JiYj5JIA5vytX7i6quN2FMlLUZLDoKrGGyMVxgjZkz6Z3UxCmTo133CcLEgapjAxFtwsD1kkexyjkQr295uj7U/s320/compressing_www.hackthesec.co.in.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 27px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> Each file is replaced by one with the extension .gz, while keeping the same ownership modes, access and modification times.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 27px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> To expand i.e. to Unpacking or <b>uncompressing </b>gz files you need to use gunzip program Or gzip -d or zcat program:</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 27px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> Using <b>gunzip </b>command:</div> <pre style="background: rgb(54, 54, 54); border-radius: 7px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); font-stretch: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: hidden; padding: 18px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: monaco, courier new, dejavu sans mono, bitstream vera sans mono, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">$ </span><span style="color: lime;">gunzip file.gz</span><span style="color: white;"> $ ls file</span></span></span></pre> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 27px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> Using gzip -d command:</div> <pre style="background: rgb(54, 54, 54); border-radius: 7px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); font-stretch: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: hidden; padding: 18px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: monaco, courier new, dejavu sans mono, bitstream vera sans mono, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">$ </span><span style="color: lime;">gzip -d</span><span style="color: white;"> file.gz $ ls file</span></span></span></pre> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 27px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> If file extension is tar.gz, type the command:</div> <pre style="background: rgb(54, 54, 54); border-radius: 7px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); font-stretch: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: hidden; padding: 18px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: monaco, courier new, dejavu sans mono, bitstream vera sans mono, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">$ </span><span style="color: lime;">tar -zxvf</span><span style="color: white;"> file.tar.gz</span></span></span></pre> <div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 27px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> Please note that <b>gunzip </b>can currently decompress files created by <b>gzip</b>, <b>zip</b>, <b>compress</b>, compress -H or pack programs.</div> <h2 style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; 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Unpacking or uncompressing gz files under Linux and UNIX systems

Extract .gz file in linux The .gz file extension are created using Gzip program which reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). gunzip / gzip is software application used fo…

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