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authorDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-07 16:11:40 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-07 16:11:40 +0000
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Merging upstream version 0.5.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>
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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.36.
-.TH ZCAT "1" "September 2009" "Zcat 0.4" "User Commands"
+.TH ZCAT "1" "October 2009" "Zcat 0.5" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
-Zcat \- manual page for Zcat 0.4
+Zcat \- manual page for Zcat 0.5
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B zcat
[\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fICAT_OPTIONS\fR] [\fIFILES\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Zcat \- Cat wrapper for compressed files.
.PP
-Zcat is a wrapper script around the cat command that allows
-transparent concatenation of any combination of compressed and
-non\-compressed files. If any given file is compressed, its uncompressed
-content is used. If a given file does not exist, zcat tries the
-compressed file names corresponding to the supported compressors.
+Zcat is a wrapper script around the cat command that allows transparent
+concatenation of any combination of compressed and non\-compressed files.
+If any given file is compressed, its uncompressed content is used. If a
+given file does not exist, zcat tries the compressed file names
+corresponding to the supported compressors. If no files are specified,
+the standard input is decompressed using the selected compressor and
+sent to stdout.
The supported compressors are gzip, bzip2, lzip and xz.
.PP
CAT_OPTIONS are passed directly to cat.
@@ -24,6 +26,18 @@ display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
+.TP
+\fB\-\-gzip\fR
+use gzip as decompressor for stdin (default)
+.TP
+\fB\-\-bzip2\fR
+use bzip2 as decompressor for stdin
+.TP
+\fB\-\-lzip\fR
+use lzip as decompressor for stdin
+.TP
+\fB\-\-xz\fR
+use xz as decompressor for stdin
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to zutils\-bug@nongnu.org
Zutils home page: http://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html