In a Unix (or deviant thereof) system, if you don't re-invent
something, you're not having fun.
Mind you, there will be those who have done this a long time ago,
already, but you didn't know about it.
(laughs)
BT, DT.
Never be afraid to play with "new" ideas.
- soup
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:11 PM, John McKown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
> }
--
John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot com
MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows
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