Dale R. Worley wrote:
What doesn't seem to exist is something that does step 2 in a general way. The tool that is needed is something that reads the first few bytes of a file, determines which compression signature is present if any, then processes the contents through the correct decompressor.
Such tool[1] does in fact exist since 2009. It is only that it is not yet widely known. :-)
[1] http://www.nongnu.org/zutils/manual/zutils_manual.html#Zgrep Gest regards, Antonio.
