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Old 02-13-2009
compressed file

I compressed a file by using gzip command

gzip <<xx>>

filename changed to xx.gz

How to view this xx.gz file. Any idea.

Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 02-13-2009
Code:
man zcat

# 3  
Old 02-13-2009
zcat is one more way to achieve.

But i compressed the file by using gzip <<xx>>

and i need to view the file xx.gz
# 4  
Old 02-13-2009
Use gzip -c xx.gz
# 5  
Old 02-13-2009
I'm afraid, am getting the output which is not readable format.
# 6  
Old 02-13-2009
try gzcat xyz.gz
or
gunzip -c xyz.gz
# 7  
Old 02-13-2009
Try this....

Code:
 
gzip -cd file.gz | more

 
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