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How do I gunzip to a destination directory other than the current one?
This did not work:
gunzip *.gz /putthemhere/
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How do I gunzip to a destination directory other than the current one?
This did not work:
gunzip *.gz /putthemhere/
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Ask gunzip
to output to standard output and redirect to a file in that directory:
gunzip -c file.gz > /THERE/file
zcat
is a shortcut for gunzip -c
.
If you want to gunzip multiple files iterate over all files:
for f in *.gz; do
STEM=$(basename "${f}" .gz)
gunzip -c "${f}" > /THERE/"${STEM}"
done
(here basename
is used to get the part of the filename without the extension)
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If you need to extract a single file and write into a root-owned directory, then use sudo dd
:
zcat filename.conf.gz | sudo tee /etc/filename.conf >/dev/null
If the file is coming from a remote source (i.e., ssh, curl https, etc), you can do it like this:
ssh remoteserver cat filename.conf.gz | zcat | sudo tee /etc/filename.conf >/dev/null
(Note that these examples only work for a single file, unlike the example *.gz, which is all gzipped files in the directory.)
For writing with root privileges, sudo tee $filename >/dev/null
is a little more idiomatic than using dd
. – dcoles – 2018-11-17T21:17:20.173
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You can try with > to redirect the result to the place you want.
3Creates the file, but does not preserve file ownership, permissions etc. That may be good or bad depending on your precise situation. – Chris Johnson – 2014-11-09T17:12:41.590
how to gunzip to different location alongwith deleting the original file? – kaushal agrawal – 2020-01-07T13:25:23.697