Name

zcat

Synopsis

zcat [options] [files]

Reads one or more files that have been compressed with gzip or compress and writes them to standard output. Reads standard input if no files are specified or if - is specified as one of the files; ends input with EOF. zcat is identical to gunzip -c and takes the options -fhLV described for gzip/gunzip.

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