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How to unzip gz (gunzip ) file

Former Member
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Hi Everybody,

can anybody please tell me how to unzip file with gz (gunzip) extension.I have tried to unarchive by using powerarchive and unzip tools.I even tried gzip tool. Please help me .

S. Singh

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Former Member
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Hi Everybody,

Thanks for replying. I found winRar more effective and easy to use.

Former Member
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Hi Sukhwinder,

For this first intall gunzip. A free version is available here:

http://www.gzip.org/

After intallation go to cmd promp and transfer to the path where gzip is installed.

Finally type in gzip -d <full path of the file to be decompressed>.

Regards.

Ruchit.

JPReyes
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Hi S. Singh,

Welcome to SDN!

did you try WINRAR?

Regards

Juan

Former Member
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Hi,

pack with best compression is gzip -9 filename

to unpack use: gunzip filename.gz

cheers,

Joerg

P.S.: I use it on Solaris