How do I gunzip to a destination directory other than the current one?
This did not work:
gunzip *.gz /putthemhere/3 Answers
Ask gunzip to output to standard output and redirect to a file in that directory:
gunzip -c file.gz > /THERE/filezcat 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/nullIf 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.)
1You can try with > to redirect the result to the place you want.
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