gunzip
Extract files from a gzip
(.gz
) archive.
More information: https://manned.org/gunzip.
- Extract a file from an archive, replacing the original file if it exists:
gunzip
archive.tar.gz
- Extract a file to a target destination:
gunzip --stdout
archive.tar.gz >
archive.tar
- Extract a file and keep the archive file:
gunzip --keep
archive.tar.gz
- List the contents of a compressed file:
gunzip --list
file.txt.gz
- Decompress an archive from
stdin
:
cat
path/to/archive.gz | gunzip