September 2009
Beginner
942 pages
85h 34m
English
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Name
zcat
Synopsis
zcat [options] [files]
Read one or more files that have been compressed with gzip or compress and write them to standard output. Read standard input if no files are specified or if - is specified as one of the files; end input with EOF. zcat is identical to gunzip -c and takes the options described for gzip/gunzip.