Unlocking .gz format logs

.. how?

[austtr]

My web hosting company provides stats reporting with Awstats and Webaliser which do the job for most of my, and client, needs.

But occasionally I want to drill down onto the raw data and it is only available for download in a .gz format. What do I have to do to get from .gz to an ascii text that I can work with?

[keeper]

Gzip is just a compression format. I even think Windows applications decompress them, like Winzip etc.

If your on the command line:
gunzip *.gz
will do the trick.

You will end up with at least one .log file to open in your text editor.

For more:
[gzip.org...]