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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2020-07-03 17:56:15 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2020-07-03 17:56:15 +0000
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Merging upstream version 1.9.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -1,27 +1,29 @@
.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.46.1.
-.TH ZCAT "1" "January 2019" "zcat (zutils) 1.8" "User Commands"
+.TH ZCAT "1" "June 2020" "zcat (zutils) 1.9" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
zcat \- decompress and concatenate files to standard output
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B zcat
[\fI\,options\/\fR] [\fI\,files\/\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
-Zcat copies each given file to standard output. If any given file is
-compressed, its decompressed content is used. If a given file does not
-exist, and its name does not end with one of the known extensions, zcat
-tries the compressed file names corresponding to the formats supported.
+zcat copies each file argument to standard output in sequence. If any
+file given is compressed, its decompressed content is copied. If a file
+given does not exist, and its name does not end with one of the known
+extensions, zcat tries the compressed file names corresponding to the
+formats supported. If a file fails to decompress, zcat continues copying the
+rest of the files.
.PP
If a file is specified as '\-', data are read from standard input,
decompressed if needed, and sent to standard output. Data read from
standard input must be of the same type; all uncompressed or all in the
-same compression format.
+same compressed format.
.PP
If no files are specified, recursive searches examine the current
working directory, and nonrecursive searches read standard input.
.PP
-The formats supported are bzip2, gzip, lzip and xz.
+The formats supported are bzip2, gzip, lzip, and xz.
.PP
-Exit status is 0 if no errors occurred, non\-zero otherwise.
+Exit status is 0 if no errors occurred, 1 otherwise.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
@@ -52,7 +54,7 @@ number all output lines
don't read runtime configuration file
.TP
\fB\-O\fR, \fB\-\-force\-format=\fR<fmt>
-force given format (bz2, gz, lz, xz)
+force the format given (bz2, gz, lz, xz)
.TP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
suppress all messages
@@ -94,7 +96,7 @@ Report bugs to zutils\-bug@nongnu.org
.br
Zutils home page: http://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html
.SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright \(co 2019 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright \(co 2020 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.