Acidentally used gzip -r and now individual files in many sublevels are zipped

Question

I tried to use the gzip command on my public_html folder, and I've landed in a pretty big mess.

Exact command I used: gzip -r /home/account/www/

Now, in many sub-levels I have individually compressed .gz files. Is there an easy way to undo my actions?

Answer 1

You could combine the find command with gunzip like so:

find . -type f -iname '*.gz' -exec gunzip "{}" \;

Make sure you do this from the /home/account/www directory, or use this command

find /home/account/www -type f -iname '*.gz' -exec gunzip "{}" \;