[fedora] dd

[suvayu ali]

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 5:26 PM, xinyou yan <yxy.716 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes it is very clear , you suggestion is good .
> By the way , I said before gzip  with >>  can  be achieved ?
> gzip  -c  make the file be compressed to standout , then redirect ,
> Can we decompress it with some method ?
>

1. compress a file by redirecting stdout:
   $ gzip -c somefile > somefile.gz
2. decompress the compressed file:
   $ gunzip somefile.gz
3. decompress the compressed file into a new file called somefile:
   $ cat somefile.gz | gunzip

HTH

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Suvayu

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