Red Hat Linux 9 Professional Secrets [Electronic resources]

gunzip

Purpose

Decompresses files the

gzip or the

compress command compresses.

Syntax

gunzip [options]

files

Options

See the options for

gzip.

Description

The

gunzip command decompresses compressed files (these files have the

.gz or

.Z extension). After decompressing,

gunzip replaces the compressed files with their decompressed versions and removes the

.gz or

.Z extension in the filenames. The

gunzip command is the same as

gzip with the

-d option.