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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What is the difference in gzip compression levels?
Have been using gzip for a few years and usually I always gzip -9 out of habit as it is the highest level of compression. I understand that lower levels means less compression but quicker compress ...
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Unzipping files downloaded from the Arxiv server
I want to download the source Tex files (not the pdf) of this document:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0322
After downloading here, I get a weird file with the ".0322v3" (the second part of the doc code) ...
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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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simple way to extract tar.gz in-place with no hard-drive overhead
I'm working with a tar.gz file (196 GB). This file needs to be extracted (240 GB) in place, and I would like the total disk usage not to go over 240 GB during the process (or close to it as possible). ...
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Optimizing gzipped files for block-level deduplication
I have about 100TiB of compressed gzip data on cloud volumes. On my way to run a block-level dedup (duperemove for btrfs) I find that it was compressed without -n, which causes block-level difference ...
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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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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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Transfer a directory over ssh with sudo
I am trying to transfer a directory from a remote server(CentOS) to my local machine(Ubuntu) over ssh. There are two users : A and B. User A can ssh into remote server and has sudo access. User B owns ...
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"gzip --version" gives "Abort trap: 6" in macOS
I found that doing gzip --version in the terminal on my Mac just gives output Abort trap: 6. I came across this because it appears to cause another program to exit when it searches for the installed ...
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How to enable Opencl for gzip?
gzip is a widely used lossless compression program. I have installed gzip and the version is as follows
gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)
Compilation options:
DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H
How to ...
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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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Gzip'd tar archive Spanning Multiple Disks
Very similar to (How to create tar archive split into, or spanning, multiple files?), but specifically I would like to simultaneously:
tar and compress a 10 tb directory, having insufficient local ...
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Simultaneously enable gzip and $STR_REPLACE in CGI in apache
I have a code in my CGI script for text replacement (for example replace 'red' with 'blue')
$STR_SEARCH='red'
$STR_REPLACE='blue'
I am using the below code in .htaccess for enable replace function:
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GZIP file system code for Linux?
GZIP allows one to use file system codes. See page 7 of RFC 1952.
What is (are?) the GZIP file system code(s) to use for Linux?
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canot restore disk image with dd (target part filled with zero)
I have a RAID0 disk before, now I want change the size of it.
From the manual, the only way is backup data, delete RAID, re-create with new size, and restore data.
now I have many old 2.5" hdd, each ...
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