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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
zcat ...
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While trying to see the content of a zipped file, I only get information about the zipping process
In Ubuntu, installed on Windows Subsystem for Linux, I want to see the content of a zip file, using gzip --list.
I expected to see a list of included files like this:
FileName ratio
File1 ...
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How to use gzip or gunzip in a pipeline with curl (For binary gz files)
I am using curl to download a file using the following command.
curl -O https://s3.amazonaws.com/dl4j-distribution/GoogleNews-vectors-negative300.bin.gz
I want to unpack it in a pipeline in the ...
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How can I restore a MySql database dump direct from S3?
I have a gzipped database backup stored on S3 and would like to restore it to MySql without having to first download it due to disk space constraints. I tried the two commands below but got gzip: ...
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Cannot unzip xymon-4.3.18.tar.gz; "No such file or directory" error
I have a problem unzipping an archive.
ubuntu:~% sudo gzip -dc xymon-4.3.18.tar.gz | tar xf -
gzip: xymon-4.3.18.tar.gz: No such file or directory
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: ...
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Not sure gzip has decompressed the whole file
I am decompressing a list of files using gzip:
At any time it skips from one file to the next, I read (I am using the verbose option):
star_60out.txt.gz: 91.0% -- replaced with star_60out.txt
or
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Need help in the shell script - gunzip and file command
This is on Ubuntu 12.04. I have a custom webkit based application where "browser" saves bunch of cache files. When triaging the problems, I have to inspect the cache. The cache directory holds many ...
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Unzipping a huge file stalls the server
I want to extract a huge .tar.gz file but when I do extract it stalls the server. The server is write heavy and extracting seems to choke the disk. Is there a nice way to extract without stopping the ...
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How to remove gzip from Linux
I tried
sudo aptitude remove gzip
and it looked like it uninstalled but when I typed gzip at the terminal it still ran.
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tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
I have written a little script that tars and compresses a list of directories + files.
The script appears to run succesfully, in that a useable .tar.gz file is created after the script runs.
However,...
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How to password protect gzip files on the command line?
I want to create some tar.gz (and possibly tar.bz2) files, using the tar command on Ubuntu 10.04.
I want to password protect the file.
What is the command to do this (I have Googled, but found ...
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