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@@ -1,19 +1,20 @@ .\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.46.1. -.TH ZCAT "1" "May 2015" "zcat (zutils) 1.4" "User Commands" +.TH ZCAT "1" "May 2016" "zcat (zutils) 1.5" "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 ("\-" means standard input), 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 supported formats. If no files are specified, -data is 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. +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 supported formats. +.PP +If no files are specified, or if a file is specified as '\-', data is +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. .PP The supported formats are bzip2, gzip, lzip and xz. .PP @@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ Report bugs to zutils\-bug@nongnu.org .br Zutils home page: http://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html .SH COPYRIGHT -Copyright \(co 2015 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Copyright \(co 2016 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. |