Display text inside (zip/gz) files in Linux/Unix without uncompressed

zcat command to display (search) files that have been compressed in the form of zip or gz. Using this utility we can see the data without extracting GZ files. We don't have install this utility specially and this by default available in Linux. We can execute below command to extract matched data in compressed file.

 zcat filename.gz

Linux utility zcat command  used to display the content of the files without doing uncompressed.