Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 07:35:32 +1100 From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org> To: "rob.c" <rob@robc.info> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternatives to zcat ? Message-ID: <20040111203532.GA5672@madras.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <002301c3d7b8$2f2257c0$0207a8c0@coconut> References: <000d01c3d435$3bd86b20$0800000a@globalvc.co.uk> <002301c3d7b8$2f2257c0$0207a8c0@coconut>
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On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 08:27:35PM -0000, rob.c wrote: > Hello All, > > I used to peruse my logs (when prompted by events in the periodic script > output emails) using zcat, however i've just tried again for the first time > recently and appears the logfile compression format has changed. This is in > turn means that i can no longer use a command like "zcat > <yesterdayscompressedlogfile> | grep searchstringfromoutputemail" as it just > renders a "not in gzip format" message. So my question really is ... is > there an alternative to zcat that can read .bz2 compression or do i have to > go back to unziping to a directory first and deleting it afterwards ? /usr/bin/bzcat
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