1.\" Copyright (c) 2011-2014, Mike Kazantsev 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.Dd March 1, 2014 26.Dt BSDCAT 1 27.Os 28.Sh NAME 29.Nm bsdcat 30.Nd expand files to standard output 31.Sh SYNOPSIS 32.Nm 33.Op options 34.Op files 35.Sh DESCRIPTION 36.Nm 37expands files to standard output. 38.Sh OPTIONS 39.Nm 40typically takes a filename as an argument or reads standard input when used in a 41pipe. 42In both cases decompressed data it written to standard output. 43.Sh EXAMPLES 44To decompress a file: 45.Pp 46.Dl bsdcat example.txt.gz > example.txt 47.Pp 48To decompress standard input in a pipe: 49.Pp 50.Dl cat example.txt.gz | bsdcat > example.txt 51.Pp 52Both examples achieve the same results - a decompressed file by redirecting 53output. 54.Sh SEE ALSO 55.Xr bzcat 1 , 56.Xr uncompress 1 , 57.Xr xzcat 1 , 58.Xr zcat 1 , 59.Xr libarchive-formats 5 60