tldr/pages/common/gunzip.md

gunzip

Extract file(s) from a gzip (.gz) archive.

• Extract a file from the archive replacing the original file:

gunzip {{archive.tar.gz}}

• Extract file to a target destination:

gunzip -c {{archive.tar.gz}} > {{archive.tar}}

• List of contents of the compressed file:

gunzip -l {{file.txt.gz}}