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Critical gzip mistake - how to undo 'gzip -r ./'

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Mar 15, 20266788 views

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So I tried to make a gzipped backup of my entire directory structure, but I inadvertently issued the command , hoping to add all files and folders to a single gzip archive. This obviously is very wrong, but before I had time to quit, it gzipped each of my files individually (recursively) and delete…

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gzip -r ./

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To undo this, use the opposite command: Note that the original command will skip over files that already have a suffix, because there's no point in compressing them twice. However, the above command will decompress such files, because it doesn't kno…

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Critical gzip mistake - how to undo 'gzip -r ./'

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