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Decompressing these .gz files gives strange/unexpected results, can you get it working?

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Mar 15, 20262887 views
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I have a collection of mailing list archive files all gzip'd, they're in a nested directory structure that starts with what appears to be a blank folder/jargon name. The files are here: http://lists.rabbitmq.com/pipermail/rabbitmq-discuss/ It appears to look like this at the header of each file: I'…

Error Output

‹vÑKÿ/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/rabbitmq-discuss/

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Fix for: Decompressing these .gz files gives strange/unexpected results, can you get it working?

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The file is gzipped twice. Try these commands on Mac OS X or Linux: You should end up with the file which is plain text. On my system, is properly saving a singly-gzipped file which decompresses to plain text. If you have the double-gzipped file alr…

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