less $(which zcat) shows us a gzip wrapper. So we look through gzip options and see:
-f --force
Force compression or decompression. 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.
just use
-flol.less $(which zcat)shows us agzipwrapper. So we look throughgzipoptions and see:That works great now I can zcat -f /var/log/apache2/*