Problem : I have a 1.5TB size text file that I need to gzip down, the current drive it is […]
Tag: gzip
Join with gzipped files
Problem : I want to use the command line join utility on two files. Unfortunately, they’re gzipped. Because they’re both […]
UNIX shell command to expand files of any compressed type
Problem : Is there any UNIX shell command to expand a compressed file which type is not known in advance? […]
Looking for the best way to backup and restore a directory of sparse files
Problem : We have a directory of sparse files (du returns 240M for one of these files; ls returns 960M). […]
How do I know the gzip compression level?
Problem : Given a gzip compressed file, how do I know what compression level (1-9) was used for it? Solution […]
Google Chrome Developer Tools data transfer size
Problem : In Google Chrome when using the Network Panel to monitor files being transfered from a site, the total […]
Linux Command line: recursively overwriting every file with a gzipped version?
Problem : ______________ myFolder What can I replace with _____________ to recursively gzip every file starting at myFolder and have […]
How to extract a tar file (.tgz) in windows?
QUESTION : How to extract a tar file (.tgz) in windows? Is this possible, or do I have to get […]
Utility to cat/gunzip a list of files
Problem : Is there a commonly-installed Linux utility that will take a list of files and cat or gzip -d […]
Critical gzip mistake – how to undo ‘gzip -r ./’
Problem : So I tried to make a gzipped backup of my entire directory structure, but I inadvertently issued the […]