Re: gzip directory

[Paul Eggert]

On 07/06/10 01:14, João Matos wrote:
> hi!
> 
> this is not a bug, but i could not find any other way to ask for help.
> 
> i created a .gz from a directory using gzip, like:
> 
> gzip -cvr --no-name /path-to-directory/new > new.gz
> after unzip the result is a single file
> is it possible to recover it?

You can recover the concatenated contents of the files with gzip -d,
and you can recover the boundaries between the files
by decoding the output binary stream yourself
(please see Internet RFC 1952), separating each member
out, and then applying gzip -d separately to each member.

The names of the files are lost, though, since you specified --no-name.