Article 6F0Q6 uncompressed txt gzip is the same as compressed txt gzip

uncompressed txt gzip is the same as compressed txt gzip

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Hello,

I have a gzipped text file, and when I try to use gunzip it, it outputs the text file but still compressed.

Original file
Code:$ file fhs-2.3.txt.gz
fhs-2.3.txt.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 30163
Uncompressed file
Code:$ file fhs-2.3.txt
fhs-2.3.txt: gzip compressed data, was "fhs-2.3.txt", last modified: Wed Jan 28 12:17:38 2004, max compression, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 105566The outputted file cannot be read by vim, so I presume it is still compressed, but why?

I have used both gunzip and gzip -d, but the result is the same.

How can I uncompress this file so that I can actually read it?

Thank you.
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