Decompress files to stdout.

Synopsis

zcat [OPTION]... [FILE]...

Description

Decompresses FILEs to standard output. When no FILE is given, or FILE is -, reads from standard input.

Options

-f, --force Force; read compressed data even from a terminal.

-l, --list List compressed file contents.

-q, --quiet Suppress all warnings.

-S, --suffix=SUF Use suffix SUF on compressed files (default: .gz).

-t, --test Test compressed file integrity.

-v, --verbose Verbose mode.

Examples

$ zcat file.gz

Print decompressed contents to stdout.

$ zcat file.gz | grep error

Search inside a gzipped file without extracting it.

Notes

Equivalent to gunzip -c.

See Also

gunzip, gzip, tar