invalid compressed data--length error

[ozgurozel]

Hi everybody. I am new in this forum
I have a serious problem

I have a something.gz file. When I type gunzip -c something.gz this commend open the file but at the end of the file I get an error message invalid compressed data--length error. Also if I type more at the and of this commend like gunzip -c something.gz | more, file would not open. It gives some meaningless characters.
I want to open this file with more.
what is the reason of this problem.

[Rubberman]

Probably the gzip file is munged. BTW, the -c option outputs the uncompressed data to stdout, and if you pipe it to more (or less) to view the file, make sure it is a text and not a binary file. If you just want to uncompress the file, drop the -c option and it will uncompress the file "something.gz" file to "something", removing the "something.gz" file if it is successful. Normally the -c option is used when you want to redirect to another file name and keep the original .gz file intact.