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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers command for gunzip? Post 302719381 by sonia102 on Monday 22nd of October 2012 12:01:18 PM
Old 10-22-2012
Sorry for the confusion.
What I meant to say was I had a directory named backup and I wanted that directory in format as
backup.tar.gz

I used gunzip directly but it gave me an error

gzip: backup is a directory -- ignored

So I wanted a command for directory.
Hope my query is clear.Smilie

Thanks
 

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