gzip file compression and decompression

gzip

Purpose

compress or expand files

USAGE

OPTIONS:

Description

By default, gzip keeps the original file name and timestamp in the compressed file. These are used when decompressing the file with the -N option. This is useful when the compressed file name was truncated or when the time stamp was not preserved after a file transfer.

Compressed file look like this: 

• You can even compress multiple file at once.

• To compress all the files in a current directory

Compressed files can be restored to their original form using gzip -d or gunzip or zcat.

 

It will decompress the above mentioned 3 screenshots.

Or 

you may do like this using gunzip command:

You can decompress all the files just like gzip using gunzip command.