Comments on: zcat broken on Mac OS X: Feature or bug? http://www.47ronin.com/technology/zcat-broken-on-mac-os-x-feature-or-bug/26 Excellence in Execution: Design, Code, and Web Media Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:57:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Glenn Batuyong http://www.47ronin.com/technology/zcat-broken-on-mac-os-x-feature-or-bug/26/comment-page-1#comment-40 Glenn Batuyong Tue, 19 May 2009 01:16:50 +0000 http://www.lapdog.us/2006/09/11/zcat-broken-on-mac-os-x%e2%80%a6-feature-or-bug/#comment-40 yes, gzcat works well thanks! yes, gzcat works well thanks!

]]> By: Glenn Batuyong http://www.47ronin.com/technology/zcat-broken-on-mac-os-x-feature-or-bug/26/comment-page-1#comment-28 Glenn Batuyong Mon, 18 May 2009 18:16:50 +0000 http://www.lapdog.us/2006/09/11/zcat-broken-on-mac-os-x%e2%80%a6-feature-or-bug/#comment-28 yes, gzcat works well thanks! yes, gzcat works well thanks!

]]> By: qingbo http://www.47ronin.com/technology/zcat-broken-on-mac-os-x-feature-or-bug/26/comment-page-1#comment-27 qingbo Thu, 14 May 2009 01:58:30 +0000 http://www.lapdog.us/2006/09/11/zcat-broken-on-mac-os-x%e2%80%a6-feature-or-bug/#comment-27 You should try gzcat :-) You should try gzcat :-)

]]> By: Glenn Batuyong http://www.47ronin.com/technology/zcat-broken-on-mac-os-x-feature-or-bug/26/comment-page-1#comment-17 Glenn Batuyong Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:27:17 +0000 http://www.lapdog.us/2006/09/11/zcat-broken-on-mac-os-x%e2%80%a6-feature-or-bug/#comment-17 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. 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.

]]> By: daz http://www.47ronin.com/technology/zcat-broken-on-mac-os-x-feature-or-bug/26/comment-page-1#comment-16 daz Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:12:36 +0000 http://www.lapdog.us/2006/09/11/zcat-broken-on-mac-os-x%e2%80%a6-feature-or-bug/#comment-16 same problem with zcat; tried bzcat? same problem with zcat; tried bzcat?

]]> By: Glenn Batuyong http://www.47ronin.com/technology/zcat-broken-on-mac-os-x-feature-or-bug/26/comment-page-1#comment-8 Glenn Batuyong Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:31:28 +0000 http://www.lapdog.us/2006/09/11/zcat-broken-on-mac-os-x%e2%80%a6-feature-or-bug/#comment-8 Interesting development: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) uses bzip2 to compress system logs. Thanks, jademe, for the reply. That was the hint I needed. For OS X, you need to use <strong>bzcat</strong> to read archived logs, i.e. <pre><code>bzcat /var/log/system.log.0.bz2</code></pre> Interesting development: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) uses bzip2 to compress system logs. Thanks, jademe, for the reply. That was the hint I needed. For OS X, you need to use bzcat to read archived logs, i.e.

bzcat /var/log/system.log.0.bz2
]]> By: jademe http://www.47ronin.com/technology/zcat-broken-on-mac-os-x-feature-or-bug/26/comment-page-1#comment-7 jademe Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:04:29 +0000 http://www.lapdog.us/2006/09/11/zcat-broken-on-mac-os-x%e2%80%a6-feature-or-bug/#comment-7 Use gzcat instead of zcat. Use gzcat instead of zcat.

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