XK0-006 System Management Practice Question
A Linux administrator needs to view the contents of a compressed log file without decompressing it. Which command should be used?
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zcat
zcat reads compressed files and outputs the contents to stdout without decompressing them to disk.
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zcat
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zcat reads compressed files and outputs to stdout.
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cat
Why it's wrong here
cat outputs plain text files, not compressed.
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bzcat
Why it's wrong here
bzcat handles bzip2 compressed files, not gzip.
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gunzip
Why it's wrong here
gunzip decompresses the file to disk.
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