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Linux - How to extract .gz files (gunzip)

For this guide we will be using gunzip. You may need to installed it.


CentOS - yum install gunzip -y
Ubuntu - apt-get update; apt-get install gunzip -y


Then use the following command to unzip "data.csv.gz"


gunzip data.csv.gz

You can also unzip multiple files using the following command

gunzip *csv.gz

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