ungzip

ungzip

English

Etymology

un- +‎ gzip

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈdʒiːzɪp/

Verb

ungzip (third-person singular simple present ungzips, present participle ungzipping, simple past and past participle ungzipped)

1. (computing, transitive) To decompress (data previously gzipped).
   • 2002, John Bryan Callender, Perl for Web site management (page 405)

     I untarred (and ungzipped) that file using the following command: […]

   • 2002, Luis Argerich, Professional PHP4 XML (page 764)

     This should completely reset everything to exactly the way it was after you untared/ungzipped PHP […]

Anagrams

• gunzip, zipgun