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Help needed with decompress of .gz file [message #145524]

Thu, 03 November 2005 11:29

tillu
Messages: 8
Registered: April 2005

Junior Member

Hi,
I have a zipped archieve text file with extension .gz
The file name is
abc_234.txt.gz

but when i tried to decompress it with

gunzip abc_234.txt.gz

It gave an error as
invalid compressed data--format violated

...Please help me in unzipping this.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Help needed with decompress of .gz file [message #145546 is a reply to message #145524]

Thu, 03 November 2005 14:20

andrew again
Messages: 2577
Registered: March 2000

Senior Member

was the file FTP'd from somewhere? If so was it done in Binary mode?

Try doing

strings abc_234.txt.gz | more

to see if you see any useful info. Maybe someone compressed the gzipped file and then renamed it to remove .Z?

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Re: Help needed with decompress of .gz file [message #149349 is a reply to message #145524]

Thu, 01 December 2005 05:52

rushikesh
Messages: 6
Registered: December 2005
Location: Ahemedabad

Junior Member

Hi tilu,

type unzip <file name>

Warm Rgds,
Rushikesh Rana

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