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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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gz file corrupted while transfer
I have huge gz files generated in linux machines and everyday night there is a script running to move files to remote network storage which is also linux host with terabytes data. The problem is, I am ...
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How to restore the original file.gz after running a gunzip -f file.gz?
The default behavior of gunzip is to delete the .gz file after it decompresses.
There's a way to restore the original file from the decompressed version on Mac OS?
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Why is my .tar.gz larger than the sum of the separately compressed files in it?
I observed the following situation which is somewhat unexpected to me:
I have a csv file and a corresponding txt file. Uncompressed, their sizes are 375MB and 5KB.
When I compress the csv file ...
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How can I get the uncompressed size of gzip file without actually decompressing it?
Please find my OS details:
$ uname -a
AIX xxyy 1 6 000145364C00
I've tried the following command to get size of a file in gzip archive:
$ gzip -l mycontent.DAT.Gz
compressed uncompr. ratio ...
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Critical gzip mistake - how to undo 'gzip -r ./'
So I tried to make a gzipped backup of my entire directory structure, but I inadvertently issued the command gzip -r ./, hoping to add all files and folders to a single gzip archive.
This obviously is ...
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gzip without tar? Why are they used together?
Why are tar and gzip almost always used together, and not just gzip? Is there any advantage to that method?
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gzip for 64-bit Windows
Does anyone know any version of Gzip which supports 64-bit Windows? I could not find anything.
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