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.TH ZCAT "1" "October 2009" "Zcat 0.7" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
Zcat \- concatenate compressed files to stdout
.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. If no files are specified,
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 bzip2, gzip, lzip and xz.
.PP
CAT_OPTIONS are passed directly to cat.
The exit status from cat is preserved.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.TP
\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-recursive\fR
operate recursively on directories
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to zutils\-bug@nongnu.org
Zutils home page: http://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2009 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
This script is free software: you have unlimited permission
to copy, distribute and modify it.