zcat

wikipedia:zcat (man)

-f, --force

Nginx logs

• zcat -f /var/log/nginx/access.log*
• zcat -f /var/log/nginx/error.log*

• zcat -f /var/log/php*

MariaDB logs

• zcat -f /var/log/mysql/error*

apt install

• ls -vr /var/log/apt/history.log* | xargs zcat -f

zcat: can't stat: ... : No such file or directory

Related terms

• grep
• gzip
• gzcat

See also

• Data compression: LZMA, xz, unxz, xz -t, xz -q, xz -T0, xz -9, zstd, Igor Pavlov, bzip2, gzip
• cat (man), cat -A, tac, more, less, tail, mtail, echo, stdin, tr, column, paste, truncate, logrotate, xzcat pv, progress, sort, ncat, virt-cat, awk, join, col, fold, tee, sponge, nfs-cat, journalctl, ccat, icat, EOF, lolcat, bat