bug#37129: Extracting .gz file issues

[Paul Eggert]

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.