I've got some files which are supposed to be compressed and binary. I am trying to uncompress them, but I am not able to find the way to do it
What I can see is that the file is compressed and binary, but I have no idea how can I uncompressed to get the file with extension .bin ( those files are coming from an IBM AS/400 system )
$ file RPLMREP.20200831045319063541
RPLMREP.20200831045319063541: gzip compressed data, has comment, comment, last modified: Tue Sep 1 04:53:19 2020
$ file --mime-encoding RPLMREP.20200831045319063541
RPLMREP.20200831045319063541: binary
$ file --mime-type RPLMREP.20200831045319063541
RPLMREP.20200831045319063541: application/x-gzip
$ gzip -d RPLMREP.20200831045319063541
gzip: RPLMREP.20200831045319063541: unknown suffix -- ignored
The "unknown suffix" error from gzip is a clue that it doesn't want to decompress the file because it doesn't have a .gz suffix. Either rename it...
mv RPLMREP.20200831045319063541 RPLMREP.20200831045319063541.bin.gz
gunzip RPLMREP.20200831045319063541.bin.gz
...or use redirection:
gzip -d < RPLMREP.20200831045319063541 > RPLMREP.20200831045319063541.bin
(or use the -S option to tell it to recognise your existing suffix, but since that's a datestamp, that doesn't feel right)