Sep 19, 2014 · I have a file file.gz, when I try to unzip this file by using gunzip file.gz, it unzipped the file but only contains extracted and removes the file.gz file. How can I unzip by keeping both unzippe...

Jan 28, 2011 · If you are referring specifically to the Zip file format, you can simply use the zip and unzip commands. To compress: zip squash.zip file1 file2 file3 or to zip a directory zip -r squash.zip dir1 To …

How can we extract specific files from a large tar.gz file? I found the process of extracting files from a tar in this question but, when I tried the mentioned command there, I got the error: $ ta...

How about just this? $ gunzip *.txt.gz gunzip will create a gunzipped file without the .gz suffix and remove the original file by default (see below for details). *.txt.gz will be expanded by your shell to all …

Jul 22, 2020 · In a gzip archive, you only have one file, not multiple files, so extracting into a directory does not really make sense. If you want to place it somewhere specific, create the directory (mkdir …

You can do a single tar command to extract the contents where you want: tar -zxvf path_to_file -C output_directory As explained in the tar manpages: -C directory, --cd directory, --directory directory In …

I am using Ubuntu, and I would like to be able to type less compressed_text_file.gz and page the contents of the text file in uncompressed form. Is there a way to do this?

Nov 2, 2022 · This approach is useful when the same compressed file was uncompressed before and some files were either deleted or renamed - so with this n option they can retrieve them. What is …

Feb 2, 2021 · The image is stored on a separate disk sdb. When restoring it using gunzip -k /mnt/bkp/sda2.img.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/sda2, I noticed that the image is being unzipped into the …

Jul 1, 2022 · never ever parse the output of ls; not even with -1: Filenames can have all kinds and numbers of line breaks in them! A for file in ${short_filename}/*; instead of the ls .. | while read…