zrun (1) - Linux Manuals

zrun: automatically uncompress arguments to command

NAME

zrun - automatically uncompress arguments to command

SYNOPSIS

zrun command file.gz [...]

DESCRIPTION

Prefixing a shell command with ``zrun'' causes any compressed files that are arguments of the command to be transparently uncompressed to temp files (not pipes) and the uncompressed files fed to the command.

This is a quick way to run a command that does not itself support compressed files, without manually uncompressing the files.

The following compression types are supported: gz bz2 Z xz lzma lzo

If zrun is linked to some name beginning with z, like zprog, and the link is executed, this is equivalent to executing ``zrun prog''.

BUGS

Modifications to the uncompressed temporary file are not fed back into the input file, so using this as a quick way to make an editor support compressed files won't work.

AUTHOR

Copyright 2006 by Chung-chieh Shan <ccshan [at] post.harvard.edu>