Apologies if this posts twice -- My email's acting up a bit.
I've not seen that behavior from a 'zip' command -- I'd like to know some
details about what OS, where you're running this, etc -- then we can help
you do what you were trying to do in the first place.
To fix this, Assuming that you do NOT intend to have any files with a .gz
extension on the server, go to the web folder via command line again, and
run this command:
find . -type f -name '*.gz' -exec gunzip {} \+
That will decompress them and restore their original names.
On Friday, June 6, 2014 1:17:53 AM UTC-5, Peter Hewson wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I'm a novice linux user and I'm in a bit of a pickle.
>
> I tried to create a single .zip file of a www directory (web folder) via
> the command line. Firstly I CD'd into the www folder, then ran the
> following command (as seen here
> <http://linux.about.com/od/commands/a/blcmdl1_zipx.htm>):
>
> - zip archivefile1 *
>
> All this did though was compress and re-name *every file* in the web
> folder (inc. files in sub-directories) with the accompanying .gz extension.
> Obviously the whole website is kaput as a result!
>
> All the files are still there though, so is there any command to basically
> un-do all this and restore things the way they were?
>
> God, I hope so!
>
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