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Decompress all gz files in a tree

I am working on an Ubuntu 14 server. Trying to create a tar.gz backup of my website, I accidentally gzipped every individual file in my /var/www/ directory, recursively. Now the whole tree consists ...
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How to tell of a GZip file is still being written while being copied

I am getting a gzip file in a path. Input Folder Path: <server>/input_gate I want to check whether the GZIP file I am getting in this folder are valid? I have used the following command. It ...
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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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Shell Script to GZIP files without overwrite .gz files

I'm trying to create a shell script which receive as first parameter of a path to a folder which I would like to compress all files using gzip without overwrite the .gz files that already exist in ...
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When using "gzip --decompress", the result is "gzip: MYFILE.zip: unknown suffix -- ignored" on Windows

In Windows PowerShell (if it matters), I would like to decompress a zip file with gzip with the argument --decompress, but unfortunately it doesn't work. Please look at the screenshot below. gzip --...
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How to zgrep by file pattern and timestamp?

I have a list of several thousand gzip (*.gz) files that I'd like to zgrep through, but I only want to run it on files with a last-modified-timestamp on or after yesterday (11/22/2012) and that ...
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gzip all files without deleting them

I need to gzip all files in a dir separately including all files in sub-directories without deleting the originals afterwards. So let's say I have index.html, I want to have at the end index.html.gzip ...
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