To view compressed files

supercops · #1 (**permalink**) 02-12-2009

Hello All

I compressed a file hello by using compress command

compress hello ( enter )

i got the file as hello.z

1. My question is how can i see the file hello.z

2. How can i uncompress it back to change it to filename hello

thanks

frank_rizzo · #2 (**permalink**) 02-13-2009

1) use the zmore or zcat command.

ie: zcat hello.Z

2) uncompress hello.Z

the suffix is capital Z

laknar · #3 (**permalink**) 02-13-2009

ls *.z to list the compressed files
uncompress *.z to uncompress all the compressed files

sivakumar.rj · #4 (**permalink**) 02-13-2009

uncompress <filename>.z will uncompress the files.

cat will list the uncompressed file contents.

supercops · #5 (**permalink**) 02-13-2009

Yeah thanks for your help .

I can uncompress the files now as i was using smaller z rather then capital Z

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