Sathish Narayanan via GNU gzip discussion and bug reports. wrote:
gzip -v -9 -r -c folder_name/ > /path/folder_name.gz Note: folder_name -> contains files and subdirectories.How can i extract files and subdirectories from folder_name.gz.
I'm afraid gzip isn't designed for that. Usually people combine tar and gzip to do that sort of thing.