Jul 1, 2022 · never ever parse the output of ls; not even with -1: Filenames can have all kinds and numbers of line breaks in them! A for file in ${short_filename}/*; instead of the ls .. | while read…

Mar 20, 2015 · 25 find . -name '*.pdb.gz' -exec gunzip {} + -exec gunzip {} + will provide gunzip with many but not too many file names on its command line. This is more efficient than -exec gunzip {} \; …

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 about just this? $ gunzip *.txt.gz gunzip will create a gunzipped file without the .gz suffix and remove the original file by default (see below for details). *.txt.gz will be expanded by your shell to all …

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...

If you need to extract a particular folder, have a look at what's in the tar file: tar -tvf foo.tar And note the exact filename. In the case of my foo.tar file, I could extract /home/foo/bar by saying: tar -xvf foo.tar …

Jul 22, 2020 · In a gzip archive, you only have one file, not multiple files, so extracting into a directory does not really make sense. If you want to place it somewhere specific, create the directory (mkdir …

You can do a single tar command to extract the contents where you want: tar -zxvf path_to_file -C output_directory As explained in the tar manpages: -C directory, --cd directory, --directory directory In …

I'd like instead to download and extract the archive on the fly, without having the tar.gz written to the disk. I think this is possible by piping the output of wget to tar, and giving tar a target, but in practice I …

Feb 24, 2023 · 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. If that doesn't work, …