Questions tagged [gzip]
`gzip` (or GNU zip) is a file format and corresponding utility for compressing files using the DEFLATE algorithm. The usual extension is `.gz`.
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If a .gz file was downloaded can it demage my computer or steal data?
I was unaware that I was on a data phishing landing page (it was very clever, I haven't seen anything like this before) and I downloaded a .gz file. After that it started to become suspicius so I ...
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Are .tar.gz files made in Linux with identical files identical to .tar.gz files made in Windows?
I've produced a .tar.gz file in Windows that contains some files to update firmware via a Linux Device. The update failed to take, and a Coworker mentioned the problem was because the .tar.gz did not ...
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Mounting a directory of zipped files for direct unzipped access
I have a directory tree with LOTS of .gz files. I once saw a way to mount it (via FUSE I think) so that I could see all the files directly (i.e. unzipped) under another directory.
I've been searching ...
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Why are not all my files included when I gzip a directory?
I know this is a question that has been asked before, for example here Recursively count all the files in a directory,
but this is driving me crazy. Let me explain:
I have a directory called "...
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dd + gz = Even Worse /// Mount Valid Partition of Whole-Disk dd Image
I've got a 250G backup of a whole disk via dd, which was then piped to gz, thanks to the advice of one of my -genius- friends.
Looks like the EFI boot partition was corrupted (pretty sure it's an ...
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zcat + pigz = undeletable write-only "zombie" file - what happened?
A colleague (anonymized to protect the innocent, the guilty and wherever in this range accidental demon summoners fall) followed a tutorial that included combining a handful of gzipped files with
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Windows tar compress command doesnt appear to include subdirectories
I am trying to compress all files and folders in the current folder (on my Windows 10 environment) so I can extract them on my Raspbian environment. Im using a Powershell script with the tar command
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gzip -d introduces wrong ASCII characters
I am struggling with the following command: gzip -d /path/to/compressed.sql.gz
I always run it inside a container from the same Docker image. It works fine on my laptop as well as in our production ...
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Can one extract the files in a .tar.gz and upload them individually onto cPanel?
I am in the process of migrating my website from Bluehost to a different hosting company. I downloaded the entire backup of the cPanel (61 GIG) successfully, but uploading files is incredibly much ...
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Error: (InvalidBSON) incorrect BSON length in element with field name 'clone_class_metrics.CE' in object with _id: ObjectId
I have windows 10 on my system with enough storage.
I have a database that is 208 GB in a file with the .agz extension.
When I import the database into my MongoDB, I face the following error:
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How do I maintain integrity on zip and unzip?
I'm taking a dd of a drive and trying to share it with a friend. It's rather big after dd (~8gb). When I tar -czvf my-image.img I can get it down to ~1.5gb. However, if I try to test unzip it, I see ...
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Unable to decompress file with gzip
I have a file called myfile.dat.gz that I need to decompress. I have been trying gzip -d myfile.dat.gz, but this results in the error gzip: myfile.dat.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated.
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recompressing .gz and .bz2 files to attain the same hash/checksum (mod timestamps?)
i want to duplicate the entire contents of wikimedia's dumps, monthly, and upload them to amazon glacier and/or tape backup and/or a third backup medium that can survive corporation collapse/...
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I have downloaded large gzipped xml files from Pubchem but my computer says they are corrupted
I have tried twice downloading the large gzipped xml files from PubChem FTP server, once through wget and one through chrome manually, but both times result in a corrupt file. For example, the first ...
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How could I use logrotate and group by day a bunch of gzip files with an uncompresssed extension?
Doing a test in a production enviroment with rotation logs with 2 days just for testing purposes with gizp files. Created a test file at /tmp/.
/etc/init.d/test
/tmp/test/*.gz {
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