How you will uncompress the file?
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Answer / fazlur rahaman naik
the command is as follows:
tar -zxf file name(with extension .tgz)
for more information u can see the man page for tar
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Answer / bipin
gunzip filename(with extension .tgz)
then
tar -xf filename(with extension.tar)
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Answer / azim
for zipping particular file
gzip -v xyz.txt or bzip2 -v xyz.txt
for extracting zip file (.gz) or (.bz2)
gunzip -v xyz.txt.gz
or bunzip2 -v xyz.txt.gz
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Answer / ramesh
tar xvf <filename> (with extension .tar)
bunzip2 <filename> (with extension .bz2)
gunzip <filename> (with extension .gz)
unzip <filename> (with extension .zip)
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Answer / mrigendra singh
1.If compressed file name e.g xyz.tar then
tar -xvf xyz.tar
2. If compressed file name e.g xyz.bz2 then
bzip2 -d xyz.bz2
or
bunzip2 xyz.bz2
3. If compressed file name e.g xyz.gz then
gzip -d xyz.gz
or
gunzip xyz.gz
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Answer / virendra
1 > if it is compressed (.Z)
#uncompress file.Z
2 > if it is ziped (.zip )
#unzip file.zip
3 > if it is gziped (.gzip)
#gunzip file.gz
4> if it is bzip2 (.bz2)
#bunzip file.bz2
#tar based compression
#creation of gziped tar
#tar zcvf file.tar.gz /home
#extracing of this file
#tar zxvf file.tar.gz
for bzip z will be replaced by j
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Answer / bala
compressed file is in file.txt.z format
we can uncompress this file by the command
$uncompress file.txt.z
file.txt
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