data compression

Linux / UNIX command to open .gz files

by Vivek Gite on October 4, 2007 · 7 comments

Q. I have download files from the Internet. Each file has .gz extension. How do I open .gz files under Linux? A. You need to use gzip / gunzip program. It is a software application used for file compression. It is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding. [...]

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How do I open rar archive files under Linux / UNIX operating systems?

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