gunzip - tool for decompressing gzip files.
To decompress a .gz file
$ gunzip file.gz
gunzip will remove the compressed file , to keep the original file
$ gunzip -k file.gz
To keep the compressed file and decompress it to another location
$ gunzip -c file.gz > /path/to/file
$ gunzip -c mydoc.gz > /home/ilugc/mydoc
To decompress multiple files
$ gunzip file1.gz file2.gz file3.gz
To recursively decompresses all files in a given directory
$ gunzip -r directory
To list the compressed file contents
$ gunzip -lv file.gz
regards,
T.Dhanasekar