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Re^2: dynamic zcat and grep

by thor (Priest)
on Mar 22, 2006 at 00:33 UTC ( [id://538361]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: dynamic zcat and grep
in thread dynamic zcat and grep

On some systems, gunzip -c and zcat are identical. 
thulben@alpha:~
17 $ md5sum /bin/gzip /bin/zcat /bin/gunzip
57cd8cdf42fbda6e0a1f5e17ac986b4f  /bin/gzip
57cd8cdf42fbda6e0a1f5e17ac986b4f  /bin/zcat
57cd8cdf42fbda6e0a1f5e17ac986b4f  /bin/gunzip

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The executable is one of those "magic" ones that recognizes how it was called and alters its behavior appropriately.

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