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zcat broken on Mac OS X: Feature or bug?

Apparently on Mac OS X 10.4.7 (and earlier), the zcat command doesn’t work. zcat is a very useful util to read through gzip-archived system logs and usually works by just typing zcat /path/to/log.gz

However, it appears to be broken on the Mac. For example, this is actual output:

[user@host:~] zcat /var/log/system.log.0.gz
zcat: /var/log/system.log.0.gz.Z: No such file or directory
[user@host:~] zcat -S .gz /var/log/system.log.0.gz
zcat: /var/log/system.log.0.gz.Z: No such file or directory

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September 11th, 2006

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Glenn Batuyong

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  • daz
    same problem with zcat; tried bzcat?
  • Clarification: zcat is still broken in Mac OS X 10.5.x ...apparently Apple wants us to switch over to bzcat. In earlier OS releases, archived system logs were stored gzipped. Now they're bzipped Thanks daz, that works perfectly.
  • You should try gzcat :-)
  • yes, gzcat works well thanks!
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