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shell function to provide "smart concatenation" to switch between cat zcat and bzcat as needed
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| # "smart cat" -- and an awesome acronym | |
| # shell function which will try and use | |
| # zcat or bzcat on the filename if provided | |
| # add to your .bash_profile or whatever | |
| # example: scat file1.txt file2.gz file3.bz2 | grep "something useful" | |
| scat() | |
| { | |
| for FILE in $@; do | |
| MIME=$(file -bi $FILE) | |
| case $MIME in | |
| "application/x-gzip") | |
| zcat $FILE | |
| ;; | |
| "application/x-bzip2") | |
| bzcat $FILE | |
| ;; | |
| *) | |
| cat $FILE | |
| ;; | |
| esac | |
| done | |
| } |
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