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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. |