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Uncompressing a file is a simple process, but it does depend on how the file
was compressed.
Files that end in .Z have been compressed with the UNIX
Compress command.
Files that end in .gz have been compressed with
gunzip.
To uncompress a single file named data1 (this will create a
file named data1.Z), use the command uncompress
data1 or gunzip data1.
To uncompress all the files in a directory that have the string
data in their name, use the command uncompress
*data* or gunzip *data*.
To uncompress all the files in a sub-directory named
old_data, use the command
find ./old_data -type f -exec uncompress {} \; or find
./old_data -type f -exec gunzip {} \;.
For information on how to compress a file, see Compressing a File.
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