Thursday, 21 January 2021

How to unzip .Z file in Linux?

 Some of the POTCAR files (e.g. potpaw_GGA files) are compressed using .Z extension. How to extract this in Linux?

Just use the following:

zcat POTCAR.Z > POTCAR

This will uncompress .Z format and save the file in POTCAR.


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