tldr/pages/common/zcat.md

zcat

Print data from gzip compressed files to stdout. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/manual/gzip.html.

• Print the uncompressed contents of a gzip archive to stdout:

zcat {{path/to/file.txt.gz}}

• Print compression details of a gzip archive to stdout:

zcat {{[-l|--list]}} {{path/to/file.txt.gz}}

• Test the integrity of a compressed file verbosely:

zcat {{[-v|--verbose]}} {{[-t|--test]}} {{path/to/file.txt.gz}}

• Suppress all warnings when decompressing a file:

zcat {{[-q|--quiet]}} {{path/to/file.txt.gz}}

• Avoid any system crashes when decompressing a file (slower output):

zcat --synchronous {{path/to/file.txt.gz}}