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.