1.\" 2.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause 3.\" 4.\" Copyright (c) 2011-2014, Mike Kazantsev 5.\" All rights reserved. 6.\" 7.Dd March 1, 2014 8.Dt BSDCAT 1 9.Os 10.Sh NAME 11.Nm bsdcat 12.Nd expand files to standard output 13.Sh SYNOPSIS 14.Nm 15.Op options 16.Op files 17.Sh DESCRIPTION 18.Nm 19expands files to standard output. 20.Sh OPTIONS 21.Nm 22typically takes a filename as an argument or reads standard input when used in a 23pipe. 24In both cases decompressed data is written to standard output. 25.Sh EXAMPLES 26To decompress a file: 27.Pp 28.Dl bsdcat example.txt.gz > example.txt 29.Pp 30To decompress standard input in a pipe: 31.Pp 32.Dl cat example.txt.gz | bsdcat > example.txt 33.Pp 34Both examples achieve the same results - a decompressed file by redirecting 35output. 36.Sh SEE ALSO 37.Xr bzcat 1 , 38.Xr uncompress 1 , 39.Xr xzcat 1 , 40.Xr zcat 1 , 41.Xr libarchive-formats 5 42