To view .gz files without decompressing it

ali560045 · September 10, 2008, 2:04am

hi,

I have a file called Archiver1.gz

how to view this file without doing gunzip on it i.e. decompressing it

i tried this command but its not working:

gzcat Archiver1.gz | tail -10

zaxxon · September 10, 2008, 2:10am

Use zcat.

Annihilannic · September 10, 2008, 2:11am

Or gunzip -c.

ali560045 · September 10, 2008, 2:12am

zcat Archiver1.gz---------> it's telling Archiver1.gz.Z: No such file or directory

ali560045 · September 10, 2008, 2:13am

thanks gunzip -c is working