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can gunzip work on file without a suffix?
Is there a way to gunzip a file that isn't ending with a .zip even though I know for a fact the file is indeed a zip?
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gunzip -c equivalent for tar.gz files?
What is the equivalent of gunzip -c to pipe the content of a bunch of tar.gz files without having to permanently "tar xzf" them and "tar czf" them back?
Something like:
tar xzf "-c" *.tar.gz | xargs ...
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Auto-untar/gunzip a multilayer tarball in Win XP/7
I review a disgusting ball of knowledge each day that I'd like to think up a way to organize more automatically. The structure looks like this - Parenthesis show the number of files of that type in ...
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Is it possible to gunzip multiple files to a specific directory without deleting the original gz files?
I know this can be done for single files, e.g.
gunzip -c my.gz > somedir/my
Can it be done for multiple files?
[UPDATE]
I have a directory with a large number of .gz files (not .tar.gz), and I ...
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How to extract a single folder and it's subfolders from a “tarball” (.tar.gz)
I need to extract a single folder and it's sub folders on a CentOS server, I haven't the slightest clue how to do it using a SSH terminal.
I tried:
gunzip -c files_20100623.0110.tar.gz | tar -xvf ...
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how to gunzip to a different destination directory?
how do I gunzip to a destination directory other than the current one?
this did not work:
gunzip *.gz /putthemhere/
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How to decompress the *.TGZ file without changing the orginal file? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you gunzip a file and keep the .gz file ?
I decompress the file using following command:
gunzip -f test.TGZ
This gave me test.tar file but I lost the test.TGZ ...
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How do I gunzip a directory?
I have a gzipped directory called "new" which contains other directories and files, that I compressed in the following way
gzip -cvr --no-name /path-to-directory/new > new.gz
I have copied this ...
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How do you gunzip a file and keep the .gz file?
The default behavior of gunzip is to delete the .gz file after it decompresses.
How do I prevent it from deleting the file??
If this functionality is not included then is there an alternative ...
