There I said it !

  • Morphit @feddit.uk
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    4 days ago
           -f --force
              If the input data is not in a format recognized by gzip, and if the option --stdout is also given,
              copy the input data without change to the standard output: let zcat behave as cat.

    I don't know why this isn't the top comment. I guess there might be some scenario where you'd want to know about non-gzip files where you don't expect them so changing the defaults would probably cause some subtle breakage. For shell use though, just an alias could be used; alias zcat=gzip -cdf

    • huf [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      in that case, i'd prefer a ~/bin/zcat with the contents

      #!/bin/sh
exec gzip -cdf "$@"

      this way, it's exec'able, unlike an alias or shell function.