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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 ...
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Untar, ungz, gz, tar - how do you remember all the useful options?
I am pretty sure I am not the only one with the following problem: every time I need to uncompress a file in *nix I can't remember all the switches, and end up googling it, which is surprizing ...
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gzip without tar? Why are they used together?
Why are tar and gzip almost always used together, and not just gzip? Is there any advantage to that method?
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How do I unzip a tar gz archive to a specific destination?
I want to unpack a .tar.gz file to a specific directory.
The archive file is in /root/Documents. I want to unzip it into /root/Desktop/folder. The folder structure in zipped file should be preserved ...
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How to open a .tar.gz file in Windows?
I need to open a file that sadly is only available in the .tar.gz file format and I am using Windows 7. I can unzip the file using 7-zip but after that I still have a .tar file that I can't open in ...
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How to do the equivalent of “grep something * -Rin” on list of tar.gz files?
I've got a bunch of tar.gz files and I want to do a "grep something * -Rin" as I would on them if they weren't tar.gzed. I want to keep them tar.gzed as they are, but grep on them on-the-fly and find ...
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Critical gzip mistake (HELP!) - how to undo 'gzip -r ./'
So I was hoping to make a gzipped backup of my entire directory stucture, but I was very stupid and issued the command 'gzip -r ./' hoping to add all files and folders to a single gzip archive. This ...
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Importing to mysql from a .gz via shell - how to do it without extracting to a file? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Pipe gunzip and mysql to gunzip a dump and import it
i have a .gz file of an sql dump. at the moment i extract it to its own file (ie dump.sql.gz extracted to dump.sql) ...
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“tar -czf” for first 5 thousand files
I have a directory with too much files in it.
I want to compress first 5 thousand files in that directory to become file.tar.gz and then 5001 - 10000...and so on
how to do it?
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Any method to batch-compress multiple files?
Does anyone know how multiple files can be GZIP compressed?
I have lots of files in a folder and I need to compress them individually.
Actually, I've found a way to do it. GZIP command line binary ...
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in place refreshing of a large tar.gz?
I have a directory with about 300Mb of code and data, and I need to regularly change a few lines of code in a few of the files and repackage the directory into a new project-version.tar.gz. It takes ...
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Remote restore gz mysql database
I tried
$> ssh root@ip "gunzip < [backupfile.sql.gz] | \
mysql -u [uname] -p[pass] [dbname]"`
but get the error:
ERROR 1044 (42000) at line 42: Access denied for user '[uname]'@'%'
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Convert .tar.gz/.tar.bz2 to .7z in batch?
How do I convert .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 files to .7z files using the command line?
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Use tar and gz to create archive in Ubuntu Terminal
I want to archive 3 folders, given their names in Ubuntu command prompt.
When I use tar -c abc tt zz -> it will do nothing.
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gzip for 64-bit Windows
Does anyone know any version of Gzip which supports 64-bit Windows? I could not find anything.
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Create a tar and splitting it into multiple archives then putting them back together
I am using the following for creating the tgz files:
tar zcf - /usr/folder | split -b 30720m - /usr/archive.tgz
Now I get three files: archive.tgzaa, archive.tgzab and archive.tgzac
So again I ...
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.tar file to excel conversion [closed]
Hi i was requested to convert a file by one of my client.I need to convert a .tar file to a ms excel. I gave the below steps to them but some of the fields in the content are missing. Please suggest ...
