determining uncompressed size before gunzip

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

Is there a nice and easy command to figure out how much space a gzip will gunzip to.

ie, compression ratio..

Later,
Bill

[Jeff Schussele · Accepted solution]

Hi Bill

gunzip -l should give uncompressed size.

HTH,
Jeff

[John Palmer]

Hi Bill,

Try gunzip -l

Regards,
John

[Jeff Schussele]

And if you combine it with -v it'll give you compression method, CRC value & date/time stamp of the org uncompressed file.

Cheers,
Jeff

[S.K. Chan]

# gzip -l

...
`-l'
For each compressed file, list the following fields:
compressed size: size of the compressed file
uncompressed size: size of the uncompressed file
ratio: compression ratio (0.0% if unknown)
uncompressed_name: name of the uncompressed file

[Helen French]

Hi Bill:

# gunzip -l list

# man gunzip

HTH,
Shiju

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

okay then, gunzip -l I take it!

Thanks all,
Bill