Gunzip?
 

I've just downloaded a zip file in linux the info that came with it telling me how to unzip & install it. What is 'gunzip'? Where is it? How do I get to it & use it?

Plse someone help. Does anyone also know of a book (easy to read & understand) to help me in leadrning unix or linux which I under stand linux is built on (unix). Sorry I'm babbling. I have no command line expireance

If you have got as far as downloading files I guess you are not doing too badly. But if you have no unix experience and even missed out on MS-DOS you probably need some kind of intro to command-line computing. Have a look at the following

http://espc22.murdoch.edu.au/~stewart/guide/guide.html

For a bit of light relief you could have a read of Neil Stephenson's hilarious essay 'In the beginning was the Command Line':

http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html

gunzip is a command-line utility for uncompressing files. As in

# gunzip something.gz

which leaves you with 'something', bigger but hopefully useful.

Chears for that I'll do that. And thanx 4 the info as well I'll check it out.

You will find you probably have everything you will need (including gzip) either already installed or on the red hat CDs.

try this:

#gzip -d "filename.gz"

(-d for decompress)