minus-squareSteveTech@programming.devtoLinux@lemmy.ml•zcat shouldn't error out if you try to zcat an uncompressed file, it should just output the damned file !linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-25 days agoIt’s part of GNU Gzip, and zcat is basically just a shell script that runs exec gzip -cd "$@" meaning you can actually just do cat /usr/bin/zcat to get the source. linkfedilink
It’s part of GNU Gzip, and zcat is basically just a shell script that runs
exec gzip -cd "$@"
meaning you can actually just docat /usr/bin/zcat
to get the source.