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Package:  libarchive-tools
apt-get install libarchive-tools

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• bsdcpio(1)
• bsdcat(1)
• bsdtar(1)
• bsdunzip(1)
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Manual

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BSDCAT (1) General Commands Manual BSDCAT (1)

NAME

bsdcat — expand files to standard output

SYNOPSIS

bsdcat [options] [files]

DESCRIPTION

bsdcat expands files to standard output.

OPTIONS

bsdcat typically takes a filename as an argument or reads standard input when used in a pipe. In both cases decompressed data it written to standard output.

EXAMPLES

To decompress a file:

bsdcat example.txt.gz > example.txt

To decompress standard input in a pipe:

cat example.txt.gz | bsdcat > example.txt

Both examples achieve the same results - a decompressed file by redirecting output.

SEE ALSO

bzcat (1), uncompress (1), xzcat (1), zcat (1), libarchive-formats (5) Debian March 1, 2014 BSDCAT (1)

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