Hack The Sec-Leading Resource Of Linux Tutorial: Linux

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<span style="color: red;"><u><i>Extract .gz file in linux</i></u></span></h1>
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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>
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Each file is replaced by one with the extension .gz, while keeping the same ownership modes, access and modification times.</div>
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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>
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Using <b>gunzip </b>command:</div>
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$ ls file</span></span></span></pre>
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Using gzip -d command:</div>
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$ ls file</span></span></span></pre>
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If file extension is tar.gz, type the command:</div>
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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>
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