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PROGRAM:

NAME


zcat — expand and concatenate data

SYNOPSIS


zcat [file...]

DESCRIPTION


The zcat utility shall write to standard output the uncompressed form of files that have
been compressed using the compress utility. It is the equivalent of uncompress −c. Input
files are not affected.

OPTIONS


None.

OPERANDS


The following operand shall be supported:

file The pathname of a file previously processed by the compress utility. If file
already has the .Z suffix specified, it is used as submitted. Otherwise, the .Z
suffix is appended to the filename prior to processing.

STDIN


The standard input shall be used only if no file operands are specified, or if a file
operand is '−'.

INPUT FILES


Input files shall be compressed files that are in the format produced by the compress
utility.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES


The following environment variables shall affect the execution of zcat:

LANG Provide a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or
null. (See the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, Section 8.2,
Internationalization Variables for the precedence of internationalization
variables used to determine the values of locale categories.)

LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other
internationalization variables.

LC_CTYPE Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data
as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi-byte characters in
arguments).

LC_MESSAGES
Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of
diagnostic messages written to standard error.

NLSPATH Determine the location of message catalogs for the processing of LC_MESSAGES.

ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS


Default.

STDOUT


The compressed files given as input shall be written on standard output in their
uncompressed form.

STDERR


The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.

OUTPUT FILES


None.

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION


None.

EXIT STATUS


The following exit values shall be returned:

0 Successful completion.

>0 An error occurred.

CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS


Default.

The following sections are informative.

APPLICATION USAGE


None.

EXAMPLES


None.

RATIONALE


None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS


None.

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