# Unable to extract gzip'ed output from File Plugin

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-extract-gziped-output-from-file-plugin/159410>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [December 4, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-extract-gziped-output-from-file-plugin/159410 "2018-12-04T18:53:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![wwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/43a26b/32.png) [@wwalker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wwalker)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-extract-gziped-output-from-file-plugin/159410/1 "2018-12-04T18:53:49Z")

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Using the file output with gzip set to true and a file is created but when I try to decompress the file using 7zip, I get an error saying it can't open file as archive. Am I misunderstanding the gzip flag?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-extract-gziped-output-from-file-plugin/159410/2 "2019-01-01T18:53:53Z")

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