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@@ -1,18 +1,20 @@ .\" 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 |