There I said it !

    • Morphit @feddit.uk
      2·
      10 days ago
             -f --force
              If the input data is not in a format recognized by gzip, and if the option --stdout is also given,
              copy the input data without change to the standard output: let zcat behave as cat.

      I don’t know why this isn’t the top comment. I guess there might be some scenario where you’d want to know about non-gzip files where you don’t expect them so changing the defaults would probably cause some subtle breakage. For shell use though, just an alias could be used; alias zcat=gzip -cdf

      • huf [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        in that case, i’d prefer a ~/bin/zcat with the contents

        #!/bin/sh
exec gzip -cdf "$@"

        this way, it’s exec’able, unlike an alias or shell function.