Terminal - Unzip all .gz files in a folder without combining resulting files

Question

I have a folder, TestFolder, that contains several .gz files. Each .gz file is a folder containing several sub-directories, with the deepest level of each .gz file containing 5 text files. For example, extracting one of the .gz files ultimately has 5 files at the deepest level of the directory, like:

Users/me/Desktop/TestFolderParent/TestFolder/folder1/subfolder1/subfolder2/subfolder3/subfolder4/subfolder5/subfolder6/TextFile1.txt

Users/me/Desktop/TestFolderParent/TestFolder/folder1/subfolder1/subfolder2/subfolder3/subfolder4/subfolder5/subfolder6/TextFile2.txt

Users/me/Desktop/TestFolderParent/TestFolder/folder1/subfolder1/subfolder2/subfolder3/subfolder4/subfolder5/subfolder6/TextFile3.txt

Users/me/Desktop/TestFolderParent/TestFolder/folder1/subfolder1/subfolder2/subfolder3/subfolder4/subfolder5/subfolder6/TextFile4.txt

Users/me/Desktop/TestFolderParent/TestFolder/folder1/subfolder1/subfolder2/subfolder3/subfolder4/subfolder5/subfolder6/TextFile5.txt

when I run gunzip -r /Users/myuser/Desktop/TestFolderParent/TestFolder in terminal, it extracts all of the .gz files, each as a single text file containing all 5 constituent text files concatenated together. Is there any way to instead run a command to extract each .gz file and return each of the 5 constituent text files as a separate file?

Answer 1

.gz files themselves do not and cannot contain "several sub-directories". The gzip format compresses a single file, and that's it. gunzip will extract exactly one file from one .gz file.

That single file can itself be an uncompressed archive of files. That is often done using the tar archiver, so you end up with a .tar.gz file. Is that what you have? Then you need to use tar, not gunzip to extract the files.