Working with compressed files
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Linux usually provides a couple of command piping gzip
zgreg, zcat, zdiff, zless, zmore, zegrep,...
Here is a simple extension of tail and head for zipped files, that you can call ztail and zhead (example is for tail, replace "tail" with "head" everywhere to get zhead) and add to your own /bin directory: <source lang="bash">
- !/bin/bash
PATH=${GZIP_BINDIR-'/bin'}:$PATH
usage="Usage: $0 [OPTIONS]... [FILES]... Like 'tail', but operate on the uncompressed contents of any compressed FILEs.
Options are the same as for 'tail'."
case $1 in --help) exec echo "$usage";; -h) exec echo "$usage";; esac
options="" files="" for i in $@; do str="$i" if test -f $i && [ ${str:(-3)} = ".gz" ]; then
files=$files"$i "
else
if [ ${str:0:1} = "-" ] && [ $str != "-v" ] && [ $str != "--verbose" ]; then options=$options"$i " elif [ $str != "-v" ] && [ $str != "--verbose" ]; then echo -ne "***Warning: $i is neither a regular zip file or a regular option***\n\n" fi
fi done
for file in $files; do
echo "==>"$file"<==" exec gzip -cd $file | tail $options
done </source>