If you use the commands described above to extract a tar.gz file, gzip sometimes emits a Broken pipe error message. This can safely be ignored if tar extracted all files without any other error message.
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How to open a .gz file. This article explains what .gz and .tar.gz files are, and how to open gz and tar.gz files under Windows or Mac OS X. ... You have just downloaded a .gz file, or a .tar.gz file. Perhaps you have a web site backup or you have downloaded web server access logs, and the file is in tar, gz or tar.gz...
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In Windows, to decompress a file ending with the .gz extension, you need to get file decompression software. Microsoft recommends some compression utilities that will work with .gz files at Windows File Association.
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Instructions on how to uncompress *.gz and *.Z files. ... Files available from the NCBI anonymous FTP site have been compressed using the "gzip" program (and have the extension *.gz), or the UNIX "compress" program (and have the extension *.Z). This document describes how both file types can be uncompressed.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Ftp/uncompress.html
MCrypt is a replacement for the old crypt() package and crypt(1) command, with extensions. It allows developers to use a wide range of encryption functions, without making drastic changes to their code. ... The companion to MCrypt is Libmcrypt, which contains the actual encryption ... This web page is temporary,
mcrypt.sourceforge.net/
On GNU/Linux: tar tvfz file.tar.gz (replace t with x for actual extraction); On others: you need GNU gzip from GNU software archives, or suppliers freeware collections, and run gzip -cd file.tar.gz | tar tf -; If then it tells you about some tar error, you need gnu tar from paces above.
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gz (and .z) files are compressed using GNU gzip. You need to use gunzip (which is a symlink to the gzip command that comes with most ; Linux installations) to unpack the file. taz, .tar.Z, and .tz are tar files (made with tar) and compressed using compress.
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pkgadd -d packageFileName ... " to install) and also as a tar file (to extract, type ; " ... uncompress gzip*Z; tar xvf gzip*.tar...
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Description of file extension GZ - GZIP compressed archive file. Links to associated applications and additional info - how to open and convert this file type. ... Windows can't open files with .GZ file extension?; If Windows is unable to open files of GZ file type, you may not have the appropriate program installed or,
www.file-extensions.org/gz-file-extension www.file-extensions.org/gz-file-extension
Full-featured Macintosh shareware utility to compress files in the zip format ... In order to expand a '.Z' file, you will need a program called MacCompress. To expand files that end in '.gz', you will need MacGZip. Both of these programs are available from standard Macintosh archives, including Info-Mac at:
www.maczipit.com/faq/nozgz.html www.maczipit.com/faq/nozgz.html
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