Gunzip

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Thursday, April 9th, 2015
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Gunzip

Unzip a gz without deleting the source file

If you want to gunzip a .gz file, but want the target .gz file itself to remain intact after it is decompressed, you use the following:

gunzip -c in_file.gz > out_file


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