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Determine whether a particular file is compressed
How to know in Linux whether a particular file is compressed or not using a command?
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Uncompress txt.gz files
Trying to uncompress txt.gz files on Linux. gzip, gunzip, unzip are not recognizing the file format. The archive is guaranteed to be not corrupted.
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Changing compression in memory
I have some large files that I need to change the compression type of for input to a program--I need to unrar them and then gzip (or bzip2) them. However, they're highly compressed files and I don't ...
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Is it possible to mount a gzip compressed dd image on the fly?
I like create an image backup for the first time I'm backing up a system. After this first time I use rsync to do incremental backups.
My usual image backup is as follows:
Mount and zero out the ...
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Is there any program to provide a consistent interface across multiple archive types?
At the moment, if I download a compressed file, it could be any of a .tar.gz archive, a tar.bz2 arhive, a .zip archive or a .gz archive. And each time I do so, I have to remember what the command line ...
