I am using Ubuntu, and I would like to be able to type less compressed_text_file.gz and page the contents of the text file in uncompressed form. Is there a way to do this?

I suddenly needed to recover an old tar.gz file, but as soon as I execute so: tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz I get this: gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated tar: Child …

Sep 19, 2014 · Closed 10 years ago. I have a file file.gz, when I try to unzip this file by using gunzip file.gz, it unzipped the file but only contains extracted and removes the file.gz file. How …

How can we extract specific files from a large tar.gz file? I found the process of extracting files from a tar in this question but, when I tried the mentioned command there, I got the error: $ ta...

The cat command is not going to help much, because none of the 5 files you list matches the sda1.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.a* pattern. To get the image from sda1.ext3-ptcl-img.gz.aa you can …

It seems that I have created gzip-like file, but without any headers. Unfortunately I don't see any option to uncompress such raw data in gzip man page, and the zlib package does not contain …

How do you view a sql.gz file as plain text SQL from the command line? I want to read the SQL statements stored in a .sql.gz file, from the command line on the server. I've tried tar -xzvf, but …

Jun 26, 2018 · 1 If you just want the first line without decompressing the file: gunzip -c logfile.gz | awk 'NR==1 {print; exit}' That will send the compressed data to standard output without …

Feb 24, 2023 · 3 Your compressed file is probably not a Tar archive. You can find out the uncompressed filename with gunzip -l archive.gz - that might give you a clue as to the format. …

Mar 3, 2015 · The find command operates recursively by default, so any file which ends in .gz will be zcatted and passed into grep. (and the {} will be expanded to the relative path of the file …