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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Sunday, October 13, 2002 3:22:29 pm | by zcat(1) | Revert |
| Older page: | version 3 | Last edited on Monday, September 9, 2002 11:43:18 pm | by PerryLorier | Revert |
@@ -568,4 +568,13 @@
$ ls
interestingfile.txt.gz
$ zcat interestingfile.txt.gz
this is a compressed interesting text file
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+For the examples above I'd probably use zless, since if a textfile was worthy of being compressed it's likely to have been very large to begin with.
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+There aren't many places where 'zcat' is the shortest command for the job. Eg. "zcat foo.tgz | tar x" is probably better done by the command "tar xzf foo.tgz"
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+Probably the best example I can think of would be;
+ $ zcat patch-x.y.z.gz | patch -p0
+
+Patches are usually compressed, and patch(1) doesn't have a 'compressed' switch like tar(1) does..
