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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ .\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.36. -.TH ZCAT "1" "October 2009" "Zcat 0.5" "User Commands" +.TH ZCAT "1" "October 2009" "Zcat 0.6" "User Commands" .SH NAME -Zcat \- manual page for Zcat 0.5 +Zcat \- concatenate compressed files to stdout .SH SYNOPSIS .B zcat [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fICAT_OPTIONS\fR] [\fIFILES\fR] @@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ 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. +data is read from standard input, decompressed if needed, and sent to +stdout. Data read from standard input must be of the same type; all +uncompressed or all compressed with the same compressor. The supported compressors are gzip, bzip2, lzip and xz. .PP CAT_OPTIONS are passed directly to cat. @@ -26,18 +27,6 @@ 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 |