John McKown wrote:
I just had to post this. Sorry if it is stupid. I just write a little shell function which was inspired by a Tech Tip on page 56 of the Dec 2008 Linux Journal magazine. I call it "smart_cat" because it does the equivalent of a "cat" command, but invokes the appropriate command based on the last qualifier of the input file name to, hopefully, properly process the file (e.g. uncompress it). I source this in my .bashrc file.function smart_cat() { local i for i in "$@";do case "$i" in *.gz) zcat "$i" *.bz2) bzcat "$i" *.lzma) lzcat "$i" *.Z) zcat "$i" *) cat "$i" esca done }
Learning is good. It's not learning that's stupid. .... when will they ever learn. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
