gunzip

Purpose

Decompresses files the gzip or the compress command compresses.

Syntax

gunzip [options] files

Options

See the options for gzip.

Description

The gunzip command decompresses compressed files (these files have the .gz or .Z extension). After decompressing, gunzip replaces the compressed files with their decompressed versions and removes the .gz or .Z extension in the filenames. The gunzip command is the same as gzip with the -d option.