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Re: head that accepts gz files?
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: head that accepts gz files? |
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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:53:29 +0000 |
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Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> I'm wondering if there is a similar program to 'head' that accepts gz
> files. (just as zgrep to grep)
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> You can use: zcat foo.gz | head
Or more generally: gzip -fdc "$file" | head
The issue with that is that one can't pass multiple files
to `head` and get a ==> filename <== inserted.
cheers,
Pádraig.