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to decompress a file using gunzip

Examplegunzip colors.gz

force a file to decompress

Examplegunzip -f colors.gz

to keep both the compressed and decompressed file

Examplegunzip -k colors.gz

to read the compressed file

Examplegunzip -l colors.gz

decompressing the files recrusively

Examplegunzip -r/tmp

it keeps the both compressed and decompressed fies

Examplegunzip -K colors.txt.gz

display compressed within it without decompressing first

Example$ gunzip -c colors.txt.gz

test the file before decompressing it to know it is valid or not

Example$ gunzip -t colors.txt.gz

it shows the verbose when we decompress the file

Example$gunnzip -v colors.txt.gz

to decompress the the given file

Examplegunzip -d colors.txt.gz

Explanation:
Decompresses file.txt.gz and restores file.txt.

Examplegunzip file.txt.gz

Explanation:

Examplegunzip -k file.txt.gz

Explanation:
Extracts file1, file2, and file3 while deleting their .gz versions.

Examplegunzip file1.gz file2.gz file3.gz

Explanation:
Extracts all .gz files in the current directory.

Examplegunzip *.gz

Explanation:
Displays the uncompressed content without creating a new file.

Examplegunzip -c file.txt.gz
or
zcat file.txt.gz

Explanation:
Extracts file.txt and saves it to /path/to/destination/.

Examplegunzip -c file.txt.gz > /path/to/destination/file.txt

Explanation:

Examplegunzip -f file.txt.gz

Output Example:

compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name
12345 67890 81% file.txt
Explanation:
Displays compression details without extracting.

Examplegzip -l file.txt.gz

Explanation:
Finds all .gz files in a directory and decompresses them.

Examplefind /path/to/directory -type f -name "*.gz" -exec gunzip {} \;

Explanation:

tar extracts .tar.gz files in one step (instead of using gunzip first).
-xvzf: Extract, Verbose, Gzip, File

Exampletar -xvzf archive.tar.gz

Decompresses files compressed with gzip.

Examplegunzip file.txt.gz

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