zrun1
Automatically uncompress arguments to command
Usage
zrun command
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Overview
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 zstd
If zrun is linked to some name beginning with z, like zprog, and the link is executed, this is equivalent to executing "zrun prog".
Releases
11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 10 times.