A Linux administrator recently downloaded a software package that is currently in a compressed file. Which of the following commands will extract the files?

The correct answer is C. gzip. Among the choices, gzip is the correct tool for extracting a gzip-compressed file. Used with the -d flag (gzip -d file.gz) or equivalently as gunzip, it decompresses the archive. Option A (unzip -v) uses the verbose flag which lists the ZIP archive contents rather than…

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Aunzip -v
Bbzip2 -z
Cgzip
Dfunzip

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(21 responses)

C
95% (20)
D
5% (1)

Explanation

Among the choices, gzip is the correct tool for extracting a gzip-compressed file. Used with the -d flag (gzip -d file.gz) or equivalently as gunzip, it decompresses the archive. Option A (unzip -v) uses the verbose flag which lists the ZIP archive contents rather than extracting them. Option B (bzip2 -z) uses the compress flag (-z), which compresses rather than decompresses. Option D (funzip) extracts only the first file from a ZIP archive and is not a general-purpose extraction tool. gzip is the standard utility for handling .gz compressed files.

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