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The gzip program compresses and decompresses files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77).

gunzip (GNU unzip) is the data decompression tool associated with the compression tool gzip (GNU zip). It can decompress files created by gzip, compress or pack.

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How to check if a Unix .tar.gz file is a valid file without uncompressing?

I have found the question How to determine if data is valid tar file without a file?, but I was wondering: is there a ready made command line solution?
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How to get few lines from a .gz compressed file without uncompressing

How to get the first few lines from a gziped file ? I tried zcat, but its throwing an error zcat CONN.20111109.0057.gz|head CONN.20111109.0057.gz.Z: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
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Extract and delete all .gz in a directory- Linux

I have a directory. It has about 500K .gz files. How can I extract all .gz in that directory and delete the .gz files?
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Is there any way to show progress on a `gunzip < database.sql.gz | mysql ...` process?

Once a week I need to run a giant database update into my local development environment like so: $ gunzip < /path/to/database1.sql.gz | mysql -uUSER -p database1 & $ gunzip < /path/to/database2.sql.gz | mysql -uUSER -p database2 & $ gunzip <…
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Opening a .tar.gz file with a single command

When I download a .tar.gz file, I open it with two commands, first gunzip and then tar. Is it possible to open it with just one command?
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Uncompress a gzip file from CURL, on php

Does anyone know how to uncompress the contents of a gzip file that i got with curl? for example: http://torcache.com/torrent/63ABC1435AA5CD48DCD866C6F7D5E80766034391.torrent responded HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:11:26…
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how to decompress with pigz

I am trying to use pigz for parallel compress and decompress. I have found a way to compress in parallel using the following command: tar cf - /input/dir | pigz > output_file.tar.gz What is the equivalent command to decompress? I need to be able to…
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Cleaner way to read/gunzip a huge file in python

So I have some fairly gigantic .gz files - we're talking 10 to 20 gb each when decompressed. I need to loop through each line of them, so I'm using the standard: import gzip f = gzip.open(path+myFile, 'r') for line in f.readlines(): #(yadda…
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Enable text compression using React, Webpack and Apache

Supposedly the compression-webpack-plugin is supposed to do it. I installed the plugin with npm npm install compression-webpack-plugin --save-dev And edited my webpack.config.js file to include const CompressionPlugin =…
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is partial gz decompression possible?

For working with images that are stored as .gz files (my image processing software can read .gz files for shorter/smaller disk time/space) I need to check the header of each file. The header is just a small struct of a fixed size at the start of…
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Redirect / Pipe wget download directly into gunzip

I want to download and to gunzip file. wget ftp://ftp.direcory/file.gz gunzip file.gz Works fine. However I want to simplify such command and tried this: gunzip <(wget ftp://ftp.direcory/file.gz) wget downloads file, but gunzip task doesn't…
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Compress a string to gzip in Java

public static String compressString(String str) throws IOException{ if (str == null || str.length() == 0) { return str; } ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); GZIPOutputStream gzip = new…
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Nginx gunzip POST requests to backend

I have plenty of HTTP POST requests being sent to a nginx server that then get load balanced to a set of reversed proxied node.js/express.js backend servers. To spare some network consumption the payload is being sent using GZIP and header…
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GZIP file Total length in C#

I have a zipped file having size of several GBs, I want to get the size of Unzipped contents but don't want to actually unzip the file in C#, What might be the Library I can use? When I right click on the .gz file and go to Properties then under the…
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How to gunzip without overwriting non-interactively

I want to unzip .gz files but without overwriting. When the resulting file exists, gunzip will ask for permission to overwrite, but I want gunzip not to overwrite by default and just abort. I read in a man that -f force overwriting, but I haven't…
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