Recovering corrupted gzip files. gzip: compressed_file.gz: unexpected end of file

A tool to recover gzip corrupted compressed files is gzrecover. This comes with in the recovery toolkit package gzrt.

$gzip -d compressed_file.gz
gzip: compressed_file.gz: unexpected end of file

$file compressed_file.gz
compressed_file.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix

$gzrecover compressed_file.gz
$ls compressed_file*
compressed_file.gz compressed_file.recovered