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hi,

I have a file called Archiver1.gz

how to view this file without doing gunzip on it i.e. decompressing it

i tried this command but its not working:

gzcat Archiver1.gz | tail -10
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zcat Archiver1.gz---------> it's telling Archiver1.gz.Z: No such file or directory
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thanks gunzip -c is working
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