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How do I open or uncompress .gz extension file under Linux or UNIX computer?

April 26, 2017Computer extension file linux uncompress Unix

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How do I open or uncompress .gz extension file under Linux or UNIX computer?

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A. The .gz file extension are created using Gzip program which reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). gunzip / gzip is software application used for file compression.