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GNU zip is used for the compression utility which is structured to replacement for compress.
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This program can be run from a command prompt. The software understands both the backward slash, which is the default program in the software, and the forward slash in the filenames. The support must include large, and the native language will be more comfortable for this software is the main advantage of the software.
For the use of developers, it contains the sub-package —lib.zip, which is more helpful for the users who can handle the software. There is a Help option which is included on the page, which is more helpful to the users if they have any doubts about the software when working in the process.
The users may ask any kind of question about the functions of the tools which is implemented in the software. And if the users have any issues they will raise their reports on the discussions page. And there are several kinds of discussions that are posted in the form, which is helpful for the user for their reference.
It has the use of the Home directory, Temporary-file directory, and the filename globbing and quoted arguments which expand wildcards on the command-line sometimes differently from UNIX.
The user interface is moderately easy for the working progress. Since the user can easily practice the software for their great use. By overall conclusion, the software is good to working condition and have various kind of tools for the comfort zone.
GNU zip provides much better compression with the patented algorithms.
Features:
It can decompress files by using specific functions.
It has an automatic function format for the input.
Computer with any operating system capable of command line prompt
Must have at least minimal disk space for program installation and operation
Adequate RAM to handle data decompression processes
Efficient at compressing and decompressing files.
Supports a wide range of formats.
Open-source and fully free to use.
Cannot compress files, only decompresses.
The interface is not particularly user-friendly.
Limited functionality compared to other software.
👨💻️ USER REVIEWS AND COMMENTS 💬
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Joshua
Gunzip is a really great tool for compressing your files into smaller ones. It’s really easy to use and also reliably consistent, which is great for when I’m trying to save space on my drive. I wasn’t expecting to like this tool so much, but it doesn’t have the same algorithm issue as LZW’s compress so I use it frequently. Recommended.
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GUnzip is a free, open-source utility for decompressing files compressed with the gzip format. It is a cross-platform command line tool that can be used on Windows, Linux, and MacOS systems. GUnzip is designed to be fast and efficient, making it a great choice for those who need to decompress large files quickly.
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GUnzip is a convenient software to unzip files quickly. It is very easy to install and use. I like that it can handle multiple files at once, which saves time. It supports a variety of file formats, and the compression speed is quite fast. The interface is user-friendly and intuitive. The only downside is that the documentation is not very clear.
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GUnzip software is easy to use and efficient. It can unzip files very quickly, even those with multiple files. The interface is simple and intuitive, making it easy to get started. I especially appreciate the support for multiple formats. However, the file size limit is a bit limiting.
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GUnzip is a really user friendly software, that makes compressing and decompressing files a breeze!
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GUnzip is a free and open-source compression and decompression software. It allows users to decompress files in the GZIP format, which is commonly used for compressing Unix-based files. Its main features include support for multiple compression formats, such as tar and zip, and the ability to decompress files without changing their original modification date. It is a command-line tool that can also be used in scripts and supports recursive directory processing. Additionally, it provides options to control the output file name, verbosity, and error handling.
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Murray
Compresses and decompresses files swiftly, saving storage space and ensuring easy sharing.
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Dylan
Fast, reliable for decompressing GNU compressed files.
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David
Efficient, reliable file compression tool.
Unzips files and makes them easy to access.
FreeArc Console is a powerful and lightweight command-line archiving and backup utility for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
LZW Compressor is a software that compresses data using the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) algorithm.
A free, effective tool to extract content from zip files and RAR archives
Free compressor that has been ported from Linux
Gzip, or in other worlds GNU ZIP, is one of the most famous compressors developed for Linux. And due to its success on that platform, it has now been ported to Windows.
Open-source compressor
One of the greatest advantages of gzip is that it uses the DEFLATE algorithm (a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding), thus, it doesn’t use a compressor algorithm that is subject to a patent. As well as for that reason, the use of DEFLATE comes in very handy, because it guarantees that the compression/decompression will be lossless.
The great drawback of gzip is that it can only be used from the command line console, and due to this fact, those people that are only used to using programs with a graphical interface may find it somewhat difficult to use. Nevertheless, those people that have used the program under Linux shouldn’t have any problem at all when it comes to using it.
Therefore, if you’re looking for a good free compressor, and you don’t have any inconvenient in resorting to the use of the command line console, download gzip now.
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В этой статье рассмотрим несколько способов создания архивов gzip (tar.gz) на операционной системе Windows.
Прежде всего, вспомним, что такое формат gzip и как он применяется на практике, из Wikipedia:
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gzip (сокращение от GNU Zip) — утилита сжатия и восстановления (декомпрессии) файлов, использующая алгоритм Deflate. Применяется в основном в UNIX-системах, в ряде которых является стандартом де-факто для сжатия данных. Была создана Жан-Лу Гайи (фр. Jean Loup Gailly) и Марком Адлером (Mark Adler). Версия 0.1 была выпущена 31 октября 1992 года, а версия 1.0 — в феврале 1993 года.
В соответствии с традициями UNIX-программирования, gzip выполняет только две функции: сжатие и распаковку одного файла; упаковка нескольких файлов в один архив невозможна. При сжатии к оригинальному расширению файла добавляется суффикс .gz. Для упаковки нескольких файлов обычно их сначала архивируют (объединяют) в один файл утилитой tar, а потом этот файл сжимают с помощью gzip. Таким образом, сжатые архивы обычно имеют двойное расширение .tar.gz, либо сокращённое .tgz.
- Установите Cygwin, который предоставляет среду Linux на Windows.
- В процессе установки выберите пакеты tar и gzip.
- Откройте терминал Cygwin и используйте команды для создания архива и упаковки его в
tar.gz:
tar -czvf archive.tar.gz your_folder_or_file
Здесь archive.tar.gz — это имя вашего архива, а your_folder_or_file — это файлы и папки, которые вы хотите упаковать.
- Установите GNUWin32, который предоставляет набор утилит GNU для Windows.
- В процессе установки выберите пакеты tar и gzip.
- Откройте командную строку Windows и используйте аналогичную команду для создания архива tar.gz:
tar -czvf archive.tar.gz your_folder_or_file
- Установите 7-Zip — бесплатный архиватор с поддержкой множества форматов.
- Выделите файлы и папки, которые вы хотите упаковать.
- Нажмите правой кнопкой мыши и выберите «Добавить в архив».
- В окне архивации выберите формат архива «tar» и метод сжатия «gzip».
Альтернативно, можно воспользоваться командой:
7z -ttar a dummy "D:\your_folder\*" -so | 7z -si -tgzip a "D:\archive.tar.gz"
Примечание: чтобы команда 7z работала на Windows, выполняемый файл 7z.exe должен присутствовать в переменных средах: C:\Program Files\7-Zip
Установите WSL, чтобы иметь доступ к среде Linux на Windows.
Откройте терминал WSL и используйте команды для создания архива и упаковки его в tar.gz, так же, как в случае с обычной средой Linux:
tar -czvf archive.tar.gz your_folder_or_file
Release date:
Thursday, 24 August, 2017
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GNU zip is a compression utility designed to be a replacement for compress. Its main advantages over compress are much better compression and freedom from patented algorithms.
This software is distributed in two modes:
- as compressed package that you have to download and manually install; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too;
- as RPM package; you can install it using your favorite rpm package manager, that will take care to download and install both the software and its prerequisites.
Choose the installation mode that you prefer. Please note that not all the versions are available in both the installation modes.
Installation with rpm
Repository: Netlabs stable
- install with ANPM or running the command:
yum install gzip
GNU gzip NEWS -*- outline -*-
* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8 (2016-04-26) [stable]
** Bug fixes
gzip -l no longer falsely reports a write error when writing to a pipe.
[bug introduced in gzip-1.7]
Port to Oracle Solaris Studio 12 on x86-64.
[bug present since at least gzip-1.2.4]
When configuring gzip, ./configure DEFS=’…-DNO_ASM…’ now
suppresses assembler again. [bug introduced in gzip-1.3.5]
Repository: Netlabs stable
- install with ANPM or running the command:
yum install gzip-debuginfo
GNU gzip NEWS -*- outline -*-
* Noteworthy changes in release 1.8 (2016-04-26) [stable]
** Bug fixes
gzip -l no longer falsely reports a write error when writing to a pipe.
[bug introduced in gzip-1.7]
Port to Oracle Solaris Studio 12 on x86-64.
[bug present since at least gzip-1.2.4]
When configuring gzip, ./configure DEFS=’…-DNO_ASM…’ now
suppresses assembler again. [bug introduced in gzip-1.3.5]
Manual installation
Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. See below for download link(s).
Following is a list of prerequisites that you have to manually install in order to have the program working:
You can install the prerequisites with rpm running the following string in a command line:
yum install libc libcx libgcc1 libssp libstdc++6 libstdc++ libsupc++6 libsupc++ libgcc-fwd emxrt
| GNU zip (gzip) v. 1.3.6 (26/11/2006) | Readme/What’s new |
This is gzip 1.3.6 compiled for OS/2. This build was done with Innotek GCC 3.3.5 CSD1 — and hence requires libc061.dll which can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.1-csd1.zip Any feedback is appreciated to paul@smedley.info. Cheers, Paul Smedley |
| www.os2site.com/sw/util/archiver/zip/gzip-1.3.6-os2.zip | ||
| GNU zip (gzip) v. 1.3.3b (8/12/2002) | Readme/What’s new |
gzip v1.3.3 also support encryption with password. For eCS and OS/2 compiled by Vincenzo Venuto. |
| www.os2site.com/sw/util/archiver/zip/gzip133b.zip | ||
| GNU zip (gzip) v. 1.2.4 (16-bit EXE, 21/8/1993) | Readme/What’s new |
GNU gzip 1.2.4 (16-bit EXE) |
| www.os2site.com/sw/util/archiver/zip/gz124-16.zip | ||
| GNU zip (gzip) v. 1.2.4 (32-bit EXE, 21/8/1993) | Readme/What’s new |
GNU gzip 1.2.4 (32-bit EXE) |
| www.os2site.com/sw/util/archiver/zip/gz124-32.zip |
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You may often need to compress files and folders for various reasons. And «Gzip» compression is a good choice for many scenarios.
Recently, I have faced an issue where I needed to compress a lot of files individually, and manual intervention to compress each file one by one using traditional 7zip became a hassle.
If you are in love with the Windows operating system like I am (I know, I know, sometimes Windows can become quite a pain. Maybe I like the pain and also like to resolve issues all by myself, who knows!), then you may also face issues in batch processing compressing multiple files to the .gzip format.
There are multiple ways to compress a file into the .gzip format. The main issue is that most of the ways do not support batch processing the conversion. In this article, I will talk about two of the decent ways you can do this.
Method 1: Using 7zip (No Batch Processing)
7zip is a free software available for Windows, Linux, and ARM64. Installing 7zip in the Windows operating system is very simple and straightforward.
If you simply want to compress any single file to .gzip format, you need to simply select that file and add it to the 7zip archive. In the GUI, you can select the Archive format as «gzip» and that’s it!
gzip in 7zip
Method 2: Using gzip from Chocolatey (Batch Processing is the Main Benefit of This)
There are several tools that we can use to compress files and folders on our computers. However, Linux-based operating systems come with a lot of tools and there are a lot of CLI (Command Line Interface) type tools that we can also use to compress multiple files altogether in a batch.
If you use Linux based operating system, then you might have also used GZip. Gzip is a file format and software application that compresses and decompresses files. It also makes files smaller and allows for faster network transfers. However, there are not any official installers of GZip for the Windows operating system.
But, we can install «gzip» directly on Windows and work like we’re in a Linux OS. I prefer to download GZip via Chocolatey, a very good package manager for the Windows operating system.
Chocolatey is a machine-level, command-line package manager and installer for software on Microsoft Windows. It uses the NuGet packaging infrastructure and Windows PowerShell to simplify the process of downloading and installing software.
If you are using Chocolatey for the first time, then you need to install it first. All of the methods are explained in detail on their official website: https://chocolatey.org/install.
Chocolatey Installation
Open your Terminal and run the command for installing «gzip».
choco install gzip
Write «Yes» when it asks for your permission. After a few seconds, you should be ready to use it.
Let’s say I want to batch-compress a lot of files into «.gzip». I can open my terminal and go to that directory (where my raw files are that I want to compress using gzip) using the cd path/to/where/I/have/the/files command.
Or, I can simply open my terminal directly using the «Open In Terminal» context menu in that specific directory where I have the files that I want to compress using gzip. Then I can simply use the following command.
gzip * -r
This will iterate through every folder and subfolder in that specific location and compress all of the files to .gzip recursively (the -r flag). Keep in mind that it will replace all your files to .gzip in that directory.
But, if you also want to keep the original files side by side during the batch compression process, you can use the command below.
gzip * -r -k
Here, the -k flag indicates the --keep option to keep the original files.
If you want to use all your CPU cores in parallel, then follow the command below.
parallel gzip ::: *
You have to add the necessary suffixes to suit your needs obviously in this process.
That’s it!
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