print from a compressed .gz to a txt file

[ccc]

hi

Howto print from a compressed .gz to a txt file, to show names of all directories and their size?

 

[Andres]

You mean a tarball, since gzip can only hold a single file.

bsdtar tf foo.tar.gz > textfile

 

[ccc]

thx, but there is a file.gz and not file.tar.gz file.

 

[SirDice]

zcat(1) and/or bzcat(1)

 

[phoenix]

And, for searching inside compressed files, as that's usually the next question, there's also zgrep(1) and bzgrep(1).

 

[shitson]

ccc how is the data inside the .gz file structured? Could you provide a snippet of the output?

 

[graudeejs]

It's simply compressed file, not archive full of files

 

[ccc]

ccc how is the data inside the .gz file structured? Could you provide a snippet of the output?

Sorry, but howto get snippet of the output?

 

[shitson]

This file with the .gz extension, inside that compressed file - Originally what type of file was it?

You could try the following (replace filename.gz, with the name of your file)

zcat filename.gz > filename.txt