What can be used to gzip in Windows? - Super User Compression ratio is not the main rationale for gzip, the main advantages are: 1 it is the standard of the internet, standard for digital_preservation and for many serious systems (e g Apache Hive default); 2 it can operate in pipes, in stream mode, with no disk-usage 3 it is free, transparent, it is not a black-box, no risk of Trojans, etc 4 the compression ratios and CPU usage are
How to password protect gzip files on the command line? I want to create some tar gz (and possibly tar bz2) files, using the tar command on Ubuntu 10 04 I want to password protect the file What is the command to do this (I have Googled, but found no
How to gzip multiple files into one gz file? - Super User You'll want to use tar, like so: tar -czvf file tar gz cvd* txt tar puts the files together, while gzip then performs the compression Quoth the gzip manpage: If you wish to create a single archive file with multiple members so that members can later be extracted independently, use an archiver such as tar or zip GNU tar supports the -z option to invoke gzip transparently gzip is designed as
When using gzip --decompress, the result is gzip: MYFILE. zip . . . 30 You may be using the wrong tool gzip is file compressor decompressor for files that generally have the file extension gz and cannot extract files from a file like colorbox zip On linux you would use zip and unzip to add and extract files in a zip file Maybe gnuwin32 has the same zip unzip programs?
compression - Is . gz the same as . gzip? - Super User I'm decompressing a file with a gzip extension and then re-compressing it using 7Zip When re-compressed though it has a gz extension Are a gz and gzip extension the same thing?
How to GZIP all the files or a list of files from some path? 21 gzip will always compress each file into a single gz file when given a list of files on its command line For example $ gzip -r log 2011 to recursively walk the log 2011 directory and compress all files it finds, or $ gzip log 2011 * to compress only the files in the log 2011 directory without descending into subdirectories
Unexpected end of file. Gzip compressed file - Super User gzip: file txt gz: unexpected end of file The correct way to represent an empty txt file would have been generating first the txt file, then compress it and, finally, decompress it:
Is Gzip supposed to honor original filename during decompress? On OS X, it seems the gzip program, The Unarchiver (the default archive program), and the Archive Browser (App Store purchase) do not honor the original filename That is, each decompresses to a filename which is the archive name sans the gz extension; and not the original filename as it appears in the header