Simple tool to auto-detect (potentially nested) compressed file formats and decompress any combination of them using libarchive, thus unifying zcat/bzcat/lzcat/xzcat/etc in a single (static, if you need it) binary.

IMPORTANT: this tool (with some improvements) was merged into upstream libarchive as "bsdcat" (see libarchive github pull/70) - use that one, if available.

Features

  • libarchive
  • gzip
  • bzip2
  • xz
  • lzma

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BSD License

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Advanced End Users, Developers

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2010-12-11
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