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 can I unzip by …

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...

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?

Oct 16, 2023 · What errors do you get if you open a terminal, cd to the directory where the archive is and then run tar xvzf filename.tar.gz?

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 returned sta...

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 decompressing it …

2 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 get …

Jul 29, 2018 · From the looks of this prompt: root@kali:/home# tar -xjSf netkit-2.8.tar.bz2 You're not in the directory where the .tar.bz2 file is located. Confirm that the file is in this location. You likely need …

Mar 4, 2019 · I'm trying to create tar.gz file using the following command: sudo tar -vcfz dvr_rdk_v1.tar.gz dvr_rdk/ It then start to create files (many files in folder), but then I get the following …

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 probably do just cat …