Gunzip?

[Douglas-K-B]

how is gunzip installed when Linux will not reconize it?:confused:

[saikee]

It is usually available as part of the Bash shell.
saikee@saikee-desktop:~$ ls /bin
arch dash kill netstat tar
bash date ld_static pidof tempfile
bunzip2 dd ln ping touch
bzcat df loadkeys ping6 true
bzcmp dir login ps umount
bzdiff dmesg ls pwd uname
bzegrep dnsdomainname lsmod rbash uncompress
bzexe echo lsmod.modutils readlink vdir
bzfgrep ed lspci rm which
bzgrep egrep mkdir rmdir xbrlapi
bzip2 false mknod rnano zcat
bzip2recover fgconsole mktemp run-parts zcmp
bzless fgrep more sed zdiff
bzmore fuser mount setpci zegrep
cat grep mountpoint setupcon zfgrep
check-foreground-console gunzip mt sh zforce
chgrp gzexe mt-gnu sh.distrib zgrep
chmod gzip mv sleep zless
chown hostname nano stty zmore
cp ip nc su znew
cpio kbd_mode netcat sync
saikee@saikee-desktop:~$
You have to get into terminal mode to use it


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[Douglas-K-B]

bzip2: Can't open input file lspci: No such file or directory.
bzip2: Can't open input file rm: No such file or directory.
bzip2: Can't open input file which: No such file or directory.
doug@doug:~$ bzgrep egrep mkdir rmdir xbrlapi
bzip2: Can't open input file mkdir: No such file or directory.
bzip2: Can't open input file rmdir: No such file or directory.
bzip2: Can't open input file xbrlapi: No such file or directory.
doug@doug:~$ bzip2 false mknod rnano zcat
bzip2: Can't open input file false: No such file or directory.
bzip2: Can't open input file mknod: No such file or directory.
bzip2: Can't open input file rnano: No such file or directory.
bzip2: Can't open input file zcat: No such file or directory.
doug@doug:~$ bzip2recover fgconsole mktemp run-parts zcmp
bzip2recover 1.0.3: extracts blocks from damaged .bz2 files.
bzip2recover: usage is `bzip2recover damaged_file_name'.
restrictions on size of recovered file: None
doug@doug:~$ bzless fgrep more sed zdiff
------> fgrep <------
bzip2: Can't open input file fgrep: No such file or directory.

cant seem to get it right..........lmao.........HELP

[saikee]

You seem to jump around with different commands.

All these commands operate on files. Bash reports back to you that it could not find them. Isn't that is a hint?

If you look at egrep, mkdir, rmdir... these commands are stored in /bin directory as evident in my Post #2. I have since highlighted them in blue.

Unless you change directory into /bin you cannot access them as files, unless you specify the files as
/bin/egrep
/bin/mkdir
/bin/rmdir
etc

[banzaikai]

May I suggest using the man command?

man gunzip
man bzip2
man bzip2recover
man egrep
man whatever

Man is the same as the old DOS "Help" command (e.g., "help dir").

Also, if you're using Fedora, then just use the Archive Manager. A simple right-click on the file, select "Open with Archive Manager", and you're off and running. If you're familiar with WinZip, Win RAR, or FreeZip, then you'll be right at home with AM. I don't know if other distros use it, but it's standard with Fedora. Oh, it'll use whatever compression algorithms you have installed (zip, arc, lha, gzip, etc.).

banzai "Stuff-It" kai