Hi Bo, > As I mentioned last week, I've patched my local `sort' to allow > automatic decompression of input files if an option, --magic-open, is > passed on the command line. > > As I thought more about this functionality I realized that it may be > more broadly useful. Any utility that can operate on multiple input > files could benefit. I wondered if it would be possible in a > non-invasive way to provide this service to other tools. This is what > I came up with. > > Instead of: > $ sort --magic-open a.gz b.bz2 c.txt > > I run: > $ magic sort a.gz b.bz2 c.txt
This sounds very similar to the zrun command from the moreutils package: | This is a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought | to write thirty years ago. | | So far, it includes the following utilities: | - isutf8: check if a file or standard input is utf-8 | - sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file | - ts: timestamp standard input | - vidir: edit a directory in your text editor | - vipe: insert a text editor into a pipe | - combine: combine the lines in two files using boolean operations | - ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output | - pee: tee standard input to pipes | - zrun: automatically uncompress arguments to command | - mispipe: pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first | - lckdo: execute a program with a lock held Regards - Peter Edwards _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
