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I get a compressed file for linux and I want to uncompress it in Unix. Is that possible?

I try with te command uncompress but it didnīt work.

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What's the compression format? tar.gz? tar.bz2? or zip?
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You could use gzip to compress on linux and the same tool to decompress on UNIX.
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Just to clarify. gzip to compress and gunzip to uncompress. Most likely, it's gziped tarball that you are dealing with. 'tar zxvf your_file.tar.gz'
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