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pax
Portability
POSIX.2, X/Open Portability Guide.
The –L, –q, –V, –E, –p x and –z options are extensions of the POSIX standard.
Related information
compress, cpio, ls, tar, uncompress
See Appendix C for more information about regexp.
See the cpio and pax file format descriptions in Appendix H, “File Formats,” on
page 911.
pcat — Unpack and display Huffman packed files
Format
Description
Localization
Exit Values
pcat file ...
Note: The pcat utility is fully supported for compatibility with older UNIX systems.
However, it is recommended that the zcat utility be used instead because it
may provide greater functionality and is considered the standard for portable
UNIX applications as defined by POSIX.2 IEEE standard 1003.2-1992.
pcat uncompresses files that were compressed by pack using a Huffman minimal
redundancy code. The uncompressed data is sent to the standard output. This is
handy for packed text files, but inappropriate for binary files, because the standard
output is treated as a text stream. Binary files can be decoded in place by unpack.
The names of compressed input files are expected to end in .z. If a specified input
file name does not end in this suffix, pcat automatically adds the .z. For example, if
the command line specifies file abc, pcat looks for abc.z.
pcat uses the following localization environment variables:
v LANG
v LC_ALL
v LC_CTYPE
v LC_MESSAGES
v NLSPATH
See Appendix F for more information.
0 Successful completion
n Indicates that n files could not be unpacked properly. For example, if three
out of six files could not be unpacked properly, the exit status is 3.
Related Information
cat, file, pack, unpack
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