On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 08:10:53PM -0400, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Dear Debian developpers,
> >
> > I ma looking for a wrapper around the various compressions programs
> > (gzip, bzip2, xz, zstd, etc.)
> > that would provide the same interface as zcat but would automatically
> > pick the right decompressor.
> >
> > I could easily write one but it probably already exists.
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/zutils:
> > utilities for dealing with compressed files transparently
> >
> > Zutils is a collection of utilities for dealing with any combination
> > of compressed and non-compressed files transparently. Currently the
> > supported compressors are gzip, bzip2, lzip, xz, and zstd.

There are also acat in the atool package, and bsdcat in
the libarchive-tools package.

G'luck,
Peter

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