On 02/14/2011 06:07 AM, Ole Tange wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> My users use a lot of different compression programs. They cannot
> remember which tool to use to decompress and print to stdout for each
> of the programs.
> 
> For gzip it is zcat, for bzip2 it is bzcat, for 7z it is 7z x -so, for
> zip it is unzip -qc and so on.
> 
> So I have made a small program called zzcat that will use file and
> lzmainfo to determine the filetype. Then it will call the right
> command to get the stuff on stdout.
> 
> I hope you will include it in gzip.

Sounds like you are duplicating the zutils project; read this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.gzip.bugs/284

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