zcat

Question 1

zcat

Answer 1

Uncompress FILEs to standard output. zcat is identical to gunzip -c. (On some systems, zcat may be installed as gzcat to preserve the original link to compress.)

Question 2

zcat

• l
• q
• r

Answer 2

• l, –list, List compressed file contents.
• q, –quiet, Suppress all warnings.
• r, –recursive, Operate recursively on directories.