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Commands using gunzip

Terminal - Commands using gunzip - 9 results

find . -type f -name "*.gz" | while read line ; do gunzip --to-stdout "$line" | bzip2 > "$(echo $line | sed 's/gz$/bz2/g')" ; done

2013-04-12 19:18:21

User: Kaurin

Functions: bzip2 find gunzip read

Tags: gzip compression bzip2

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Recompress all files in current directory from gzip to bzip2

Find all .gz files and recompress them to bz2 on the fly. No temp files.

edit: forgot the double quotes! jeez!

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ssh 10.0.0.4 "gzip -c /tmp/backup.sql" |gunzip > backup.sql

2012-01-06 17:44:06

User: ultips

Functions: gunzip ssh

Tags: ssh gzip compression

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Speed Up WAN File Transfer With Compression

If you have servers on Wide Area Network (WAN), you may experience very long transfer rates due to limited bandwidth and latency.

To speed up you transfers you need to compress the data so you will have less to transfer.

So the solution is to use a compression tools like gzip or bzip or compress before and after the data transfer.

Using ssh "-C" option is not compatible with every ssh version (ssh2 for instance).

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wget -q -O- --header\="Accept-Encoding: gzip" <url> | gunzip > out.html

2010-11-27 22:14:42

User: ashish_0x90

Functions: gunzip wget

Tags: wget encoding gunzip gzip

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Get gzip compressed web page using wget.

Caution: The command will fail in case website doesn't return gzip encoded content, though most of thw websites have gzip support now a days.

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ls | grep .gz >> list.txt && cat list.txt | while read x ; do gunzip -d $x ; done && rm -rf list.txt

2010-11-17 11:06:02

User: maccu

Functions: cat grep gunzip ls read rm

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gunzip all .gz file in current dir

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pv bigdump.sql.gz | gunzip | mysql

2010-06-11 14:26:13

User: skygreg

Functions: gunzip

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MySQL dump restore with progress bar and ETA

Display a progress bar while restoring a MySQL dump.

ssh 10.0.0.4 "cat /tmp/backup.sql | gzip -c1" | gunzip -c > backup.sql

2010-02-14 19:09:07

User: kennethjor

Functions: gunzip ssh

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gzip over ssh

I've kept the gzip compression at a low level, but depending on the cpu power available on the source machine you may want to increase it. However, SQL compresses really well, and I found even with -1 I was able to transfer 40 MiB/s over a 100 mbps wire, which was good enough for me.

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ssh user@host "mysqldump -h localhost -u mysqluser -pP@$$W3rD databasename | gzip -cf" | gunzip -c > database.sql

2009-10-05 00:57:51

User: daws

Functions: gunzip ssh

Tags: mysql mysqldump

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Get a MySQL DB dump from a remote machine

This command will dump a database on a remote stream to stdout, compress it, stream it to your local machine, decompress it and put it into a file called database.sql.You could even pipe it into mysql on your local machine to restore it immediately. I had to use this recently because the server I needed a backup from didn't have enough disk space.

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gunzip < foo.tar.gz | tar xvf -

2009-05-19 11:33:02

User: sharfah

Functions: gunzip tar

Tags: tar gunzip

-11

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Extract tar.gz in a single command

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gunzip -c /var/log/auth.log.*.gz | cat - /var/log/auth.log /var/log/auth.log.0 | grep "Invalid user" | awk '{print $8;}' | sort | uniq -c | less

2009-03-03 04:26:57

User: eanx

Functions: awk cat grep gunzip sort uniq

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Quickly find a count of how many times invalid users have attempted to access your system

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