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Subject: Re: Alternatives to zcat ?
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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 ?
>
>regards,
>rob
>(aka peas)
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bzcat would seem to be part of the base system...

Scott