GNU bug report logs - #37129
Extracting .gz file issues

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Package: gzip;

Reported by: Sathish Narayanan <sathish <at> voonik.com>

Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:25:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Sathish Narayanan <sathish <at> voonik.com>, 37129 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37129: Extracting .gz file issues
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 18:04:54 -0700

Sathish Narayanan via GNU gzip discussion and bug reports. wrote:
> gzip -v -9 -r -c folder_name/ > /path/folder_name.gz
> Note: folder_name -> contains files and subdirectories.
> 
> How can i extract files and subdirectories from  folder_name.gz.

I'm afraid gzip isn't designed for that. Usually people combine tar and gzip to 
do that sort of thing.
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