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 -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org pe...@morpheusly.com PGP key: https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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