How do I gunzip to a different destination directory?
Ask gunzip
to output to standard output and redirect to a file in that directory:
gunzip -c file.gz > /THERE/file
zcat
is a shortcut for gunzip -c
.
If you want to gunzip multiple files iterate over all files:
for f in *.gz; do
STEM=$(basename "${f}" .gz)
gunzip -c "${f}" > /THERE/"${STEM}"
done
(here basename
is used to get the part of the filename without the extension)
If you need to extract a single file and write into a root-owned directory, then use sudo dd
:
zcat filename.conf.gz | sudo tee /etc/filename.conf >/dev/null
If the file is coming from a remote source (i.e., ssh, curl https, etc), you can do it like this:
ssh remoteserver cat filename.conf.gz | zcat | sudo tee /etc/filename.conf >/dev/null
(Note that these examples only work for a single file, unlike the example *.gz, which is all gzipped files in the directory.)