Top "Gzip" questions

GZip/gzip is both the name for a compressed data format and any of several software applications implementing this format.

How do I tar a directory of files and folders without including the directory itself?

I typically do: tar -czvf my_directory.tar.gz my_directory What if I just want to include everything (including …

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How to gzip all files in all sub-directories into one compressed file in bash

Possible Duplicate: gzipping up a set of directories and creating a tar compressed file This post describes how to gzip …

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TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface

plaintext = input("Please enter the text you want to compress") filename = input("Please enter the desired filename") with gzip.open(…

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How are zlib, gzip and zip related? What do they have in common and how are they different?

The compression algorithm used in zlib is essentially the same as that in gzip and zip. What are gzip and …

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How to uncompress a tar.gz in another directory

I have an archive *.tar.gz How can I uncompress this in a destination directory?

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How to extract filename.tar.gz file

I want to extract an archive named filename.tar.gz. Using tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz doesn't extract the file. …

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Excluding directory when creating a .tar.gz file

I have a /public_html/ folder, in that folder there's a /tmp/ folder that has like 70gb of files I …

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How to check if a Unix .tar.gz file is a valid file without uncompressing?

I have found the question How to determine if data is valid tar file without a file?, but I was …

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htaccess - How to force the client's browser to clear the cache?

For my site I have the following htaccess rules: # BEGIN Gzip <IfModule mod_deflate.c> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/…

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Utilizing multi core for tar+gzip/bzip compression/decompression

I normally compress using tar zcvf and decompress using tar zxvf (using gzip due to habit). I've recently gotten a …

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