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I'm trying to do mysqldump using the xampp shell. but when I use gzip it gives me an error it says: 'gzip' is not recognized as amn internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

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mysqldump -u root -p database | gzip -9 > C:\database_bu.sql.gz
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  • Do you have gzip installed? This is standard on many POSIX-type installations (Linux, BSD, OS X, etc.) but not present by default on Windows.
    – tadman
    Commented Dec 10, 2014 at 19:39
  • I have Gzip.pm under xampp library. Any process i have to install gzip?
    – razerer
    Commented Dec 10, 2014 at 19:43
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    Gzip is a command-line tool and also a library included in many things. That's the Perl module, it's of no help here. You need a gzip.exe somewhere in your path for this to work.
    – tadman
    Commented Dec 10, 2014 at 20:32

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Well after the response from tadman I was able to resolve it. I installed gzip by going to this site: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm

I made sure it installed the program on C: and I altered my code to the one below and it worked.

mysqldump -u root -p database | C:\GnuWin32\bin\gzip -9 > C:\database_bu.sql.gz
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