what program to use to upack log files ?

[Marcos Almeida Azevedo]

You may also use wildcard on gunzip if need to uncompress multiple files

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Niles Rogoff <nilesrogoff at gmail.com> wrote:

> just run gunzip mail.log.3.gz
> gzip can only compress one file at a time, tar doesn't compress at all it
> just takes a directory of files and smooshes them all together into one.
> The two technologies are usually combined, but a log files is already just
> one file so there's no point to using tar
>
> 2015-03-03 10:09 GMT-05:00 Diep Pham <favadi at fastmail.fm>:
>
>> On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 09:40:00 +0100
>> robert <robert at redcor.ch> wrote:
>>
>> > I am not able to unpack archives that have been created by the ubuntu
>> > log schedular.
>> > At leas not in a bash shell.
>> >
>> > root at salome:~/tmp# tar xvfz mail.log.3.gz
>> > tar: This does not look like a tar archive
>> > tar: Skipping to next header
>> > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>>
>> Just install atool package and use aunpack command to unpack every
>> archive file type.
>>
>> FYI, you can use less to directly read *.gz file.
>>
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