weird gzip behaviour?
 

Hello!

Is it possible that after (maybe incorrect?) usage of the gzip some files, which definitely shouldn`t been touched, were changed?

Here is exactly, what I did: In Gnome user terminal, logged as user `karel` I changed to directory /var/www$ which is owned by root and looks like this
Than I did which packed all files and subdirectories inside directory `karel`. Now, when I unpacked them with everything in the directory looks as before, but file `index.html` which is inside `apache2-default` directory has changed to what it has been originaly when apache was installed. Now, I`m certain that I`ve edited this file as root before and save it. But now it`s as it was originally. I`m really confused about this. If something like this is possible, is there not a chance that other files have been corrupted?

I apologize if my question is stupid and/or answer is obvious, but can someone tell me what is going on?

Thank you very much for any reply.
Karel.

I very much doubt that compressing the files in directory A would change the files in directory B. It seems most likely that the other file was not saved as you thought.

Mildly off-topic, but why not:
tar -czvf karel.tar.gz karel

creates a compressed archive in one file.

Thank you very much for a quick reply, pixellany. Yes, I`m still not very friendly with the tar command...

I as well don`t think that by compressing files in one directory files in another directory can be affected. It`s possible that the change took place some time before, but I noticed it after executing the gzip and gunzip commands, when I was checking my web pages and they didn`t load as usual. Even that everything was unchanged... Is it possibly problem with some buffer or even a bug?

Anyway, I`ll let it be as many other things mysterious to me :(

Good day and thank you again.
Karel.

I`m sorry for the fuss. Apparently the file had been overwritten during last update of Apache. I`m shy that I didn`t notice that before...