Questions tagged [gzip]
Open source command line data stream compressor and archiver.
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Install.sh not opening zip files [closed]
./Install.sh
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
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tar skip trying to compress files by extension
I noticed when compressing a directory with tar+gzip that the compressor was spending a lot of time trying to compress mp4 video files in vain. This makes me wonder: does gzip or any other common ...
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log management with crontab
I have a syslog-ng with multiple firewall logs and I want to compress log file everyday and delete logs older than 30 days.
Logs path example : /var/log/firewall/xx.xx.xx.01/2023/04/27/firewall.log
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GZIP process takes CPU usage 100%
GZIP uses 100% of the CPU.
I tried using pstree -apl to get which processes needed the GZIP, and I found Logratate.
Have some people experienced this? And how did you solve it?
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Ubuntu: gunzip: No space left on device, while df shows otherwise
I am trying to decompress a .gz file with the gunzip command and I get the error 'No space left on device'.
This is the output of 'df -h':
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root ...
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How to print the manual of gzip program
I am new to Linux and I need to print the manual of gzip program but I am not able to figure it out. I have written the command man gzip but I am not sure whether it is reading or printing it.
I am ...
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How do I .zip multiple files and retain their file names. EX file1.file file2.file -> file1.zip file2.zip
As the title suggests I need to .zip multiple files (thousands) in a folder and have each file zipped into their own archive with the original file name as the .zip filename.
If I try to do this with ...
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Xournal++ file extension gets associated with gzip
I installed xournal++ on kde plasma kubuntu 20.04(LTS) by snap. All went well except the file extension .xopp got associated with gzip.
I removed the snap version and reinstalled via deb. The problem ...
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Do I need to convert to gzip format or tar format?
$file ccache-2.4.tar.gz
ccache-2.4.tar.gz: HTML document, ASCII text
The file, ccache-2.4.tar.gz is in the ASCII test format
ccache-2.4.tar.gz: not in gzip format
tar: This does not look like a ...
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How to extract a corrupted zip file?
I compressed some zip files into another zip file. Later, when I tried to extract it, I got the following message:
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, ...
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Decompress .zone.gz file
I have a file names xyz.zone.gz opening it up via gunzip gave me an error
gzip: /home/User/Downloads/xyz.zone.gz: not in gzip format
Earlier, I thought that the its a .gz file but since it gave me an ...
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GUI - compress a folder in tar.gz format skips the backup files (files ending with "~")
If I have these example files in the folder "Example":
text1.txt
text1.txt~
text2.txt
text2.txt~
text3.txt
text4.txt
After the compression with mouse right-click and click "Compress...&...
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gzip i/o error while wrinting to NAS
I have a backup script that creates a backup archive onto a mounted NAS drive:
tar zcf /mnt/nas_drive/backup.tgz .??* *
About 50% of the time, the process fails with the following error message:
gzip:...
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unzip .tar.gz file in terminal [duplicate]
How do I unzip a .tar.gz file in the terminal? I'm not able to do so in GUI, because I want to extract it to a /usr directory, and will need the sudo command.
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How do I instalI xfe-1.43.2.tar.gz?
I am running Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
I installed xfe file manager with: sudo apt install xfe version 1.42.
I would like to upgrade it to version 1.43.2.
I downloaded xfe-1.43.2.tar.gz and extracted it.
I ...
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How to backup a folder from ubuntu so that it can be used afterwards on any file system and OS, by any user
Summary:
I need to backup a folder (not the entire system) with 450 GB worth of content to many different external drives (NTFS and ext4). I'd like to archive it (tar) and compress it (maybe gzip?) ...
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Missing files? 3Gb+ .tar.gz file contains files with total size of 6.2Kb
I am running on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS.
I gzipped a folder with roughly 60+K files into a .tar.gz file. The compressed file had a size of 3.3Gb.
I opened the compressed file to extract some files, and ...
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How can I install 2 mysql instances in ubuntu using the generic binaries?
I want to install 2 mysql versions, one on the default port (3306) and the other on the 3308 port, on ubuntu 18.04 using the tar.gz file for generic binary installation. I would really appreciate if ...
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Zip certain files having filenames alphanumerically bigger than others
I gzipped files in a slurm job. But job canceled before it is done. It takes so long(~10min for a file, and there is 200 files). How can I zip only the remaining files which are not zipped yet?
$ ls
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How to zip a mobi file from the CLI?
Using tar works fine:
thufir@dur:~/Desktop$
thufir@dur:~/Desktop$ ll
total 9720
drwxr-xr-x 2 thufir thufir 4096 Jun 13 13:14 ./
drwxr-xr-x 48 thufir thufir 4096 Jun 13 00:46 ../
-rw-r--r-- ...
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Compress folder following any symbolic links
I store a lot of my data in a flat structure and the create symbolic links to different folders where my clients can access them via OwnCloud.
I need to compress one of these folders containing sym-...
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How to control gzip and sed process
I use Ubuntu Studio 19.10, Linux 5.3.0-40-lowlatency (x86_64).
Since a while, one of my PCs, is working a lot with some process (apps) I've never programmed to work: "GZIP" and "SED" (and there are ...
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Is GZIP working always (invisible), by default?
I use Ubuntu Studio 19.10.
I want to know if the app GZIP is working, invisible, at any time, by default, even if we don't ask it to do something.
In other words... Can this app work in an automatic ...
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Why does Drag&Drop from Engrampa (*.tar.gz content) to Thunar not work?
There's a tooltip when dragging (see the screenshot below) but at dropping it flies back to Engrampa and nothing is done: no unzip, no untar, no mkdir(s), no copy, no sudo password dialog, no info/...
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How to exclude a folder by name recursively when making a tar archive?
I know it is possible to exclude a particular folder by a command like this:
tar --exclude='/srv/www/project/node_modules' -zcvf /backup/project.tgz .
My question how to exclude any folder named ...
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How to extract *.tgz.part-*? [duplicate]
I have several files as follow :
multiview_action.tgz.part-aa
multiview_action.tgz.part-ab
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multiview_action.tgz.part-ap
I tried the following command :
tar -zxvf multiview_action.tgz*
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gzip strange idle usage?
I've noticed last couple of nights my fans come on lightly as if the cpu was being used. Found the culprit is gzip, however no open files and pretty much nothing else to show. What could it be up to ?
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Problem with a front end of compressed files
I need to make a frontend for compressed files, the idea is that if you receive a gz or bz2 file, uncompress it with gunzip and bunzip2.
If what you receive is a tar.gz or a tar.b2 you should unpack ...
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How to install and enable brotli compression on LEMP on ubuntu 18.04
I need some help. I have enabled gzip compression, but I also want to allow brotli compression on my server. I followed many articles available on Google, but none of them helped me to install and ...
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curl unexpected end of file when downloading gzip
I used command
The URL the data is located at.
URL=http://data.biostarhandbook.com/rnaseq/projects/griffith/griffith-data.tar.gz
Downloading and unpack the data.
curl -s $URL | tar zxv
I got ...
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archive folder /usr/share/man
I have Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. There seem to be thousands of gzip archive files, eg stored under the /usr/share/man folder and its sub-folders, which I'd like to get rid of as they just clutter up my drive. ...
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Extract same file from multiple directories with same name i.e. 00000.gz?
Extract the file from multiple folders with same name into some other folder with diffrent name..
If possible with increasing count file1 to file100.
As of now if i run this command then it only ...
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append or remove file from tar and tar.gz
I want to append files to foo.tar:
tar -rvf foo.tar IMG_1807.MOV
this works, but when I want to remove files:
tar -dvf foo.tar IMG_1807.MOV
doesn't work. It shows the output:
Terminal:~/Desktop$ ...
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gzip 2 files into one file
I want to gzip two or more files into one file, I checked this and this but both have files like: n1.txt, n2.txt, ... but my filenames are completely different, like: file.mp4, bar.txt, foo.jpeg and I ...
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How to edit header of tar.gz file that has been split
I downloaded a tar.gz file which is approx 50gb, and it is part of a larger tar.gz file that is 500gb that was split up into ten 50gb sections. When I try and decompress the 50gb file, I get an "...
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Automating Gzip enabling and caching expiration in Apache
Instead me having to copy-paste the following codes to enable Gzip comperssing and cache expiration into my apache2.conf each time I create a new server-environment, is there a way to make them appear ...
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invalid compressed data--crc error invalid compressed data--length error
I gzipped a 8.7GB kvm qcow2 image but I forgot to add the -k parameter so the original image is lost.
So in order to get it back i tried to "gunzip" and the resulting file blew up past 400GB... ...
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how to recursively extract where folders are uncompressed but files inside them are compressed.
I have tried everything i know and dozens of old forum posts on this kind of thing...nothing is working.
I have uploaded a backup wordpress directory to web server after the existing one was ...
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How to insert a line break between stderr and stdout
This question helped me understand how to combine stderr and stdout:
How to redirect stderr to a file
with this command:
gunzip -vc /opt/minecraft/wonders/logs/20* 2>&1
But how may one ...
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Gzip freezes during the execution of ./configure command
I am following the instructions of LFS book. I have unzip or untar many packages and install it. But when I do the same process for Gzip package It freezes. Everything is works fine until checking for ...
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Need help with: "file type Gzip archive is not supported"
I’ve downloaded the Ltc core wallet on Ubuntu 16.04, 32bit. When I try opening the folder, a message tells me ‘file type Gzip archive is not supported’. So I downloaded Xarchiver and tried again, with ...
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Is it possible to recover data from a partial tar.gz file?
I was uploading my backup tar.gz file over several sessions. With one session still to go, I thought I would take a break. That was the last time I was able to use that pc - dead HD. The original tar....
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How to uncompress a .bin.gz file?
I have a file named like file.bin.gz.
I tried using gzip -d f.bin.gz to uncompress it, and got a .bin file.
Is the correct way to uncompress .bin files to use gzip -d? Also, .bin is a binary file, ...
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how to get the latest version of gzip? [closed]
I am currently running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
I'm having gzip of version 1.4.
how do I get the latest version of it (say gzip 1.6)?
how to I upgrade to latest version of it?
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.tar.gz file downloaded as HTML document, ASCII text
While going through the following instructions:
curl -O http://static.druid.io/artifacts/releases/druid-latest-bin.tar.gz
tar -xzf druid-latest-bin.tar.gz
cd druid-latest
I received the following ...
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Bash command accessing all subdirectory fails
I have a directory structure like this:
example/ace/actives_final.sdf.gz
example/ace/decoys_final.sdf.gz
example/aces/actives_final.sdf.gz
example/aces/decoys_final.sdf.gz
I only want to access each ...
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How do I get a file size(original file size) within .tar.gz without uncompress it?
I make myfile.txt to zip file with below command, is there a way to get original file size 'myfile.txt' without unzipping it.
tar -czf myfile.tar.gz myfile.txt
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extract and save subfiles from a gz file
EDIT: I used the command tar xvfz and everything is good now. I see a subfolder with all the files in it, just as i wanted to.
First, please excuse me this is a stupid question, i am very new to ...
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How to write "gzip -c foo.txt > foo.txt.gz" with 2 redirection operators instead of 1
A bit of an arbitrary question, but it's part of a school assignment so I don't really have a choice.
The problem in question is this: compress foo.txt into foo.txt.gz while keeping the original ...
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/boot/ Full, not enough space to remove old kernels? [duplicate]
EDIT: following the instructions on this thread, I attempted to remove my old/unused kernels but could not. It looks like there's not enough space for the operation, what do I do?
Output of ls /boot/:...