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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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zcat shouldn't error out if you try to zcat an uncompressed file, it should just output the damned file ! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There I said it !

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Well, the source code is available. Fix it if you need it that bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Where is it? I can't seen to find it https://github.com/zCat?tab=repositories

[–] SteveTech 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It'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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Or even zcat -f /usr/bin/zcat

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