Crate libaki_xcat

concatenate files that are plain, gzip, xz and zstd.

Usage:
  aki-xcat [options] [<file>...]

this is a like cat, zcat, xzcat and zstdcat.
with no <file> or when <file> is -, read standard input.
automatic discovery file type: plain, gz, xz and zst.

Options:
  -H, --help     display this help and exit
  -V, --version  display version information and exit
 
Argument:
  <file>         utf-8 encoded text file. A compressed file of it by gzip, xz, zstd.
 
Examples:
  You can simple use. Just arrange the files.
    aki-xcat file1 file2.gz file3.xz file4.zst

Examples

Command line example 1

concatenate plain text file.

cat fixtures/plain.txt

result output :

abcdefg
hijklmn

concatenate gzip text file.

zcat fixtures/gztext.txt.gz

result output :

ABCDEFG
HIJKLMN

concatenate plain text file and gzip text file.

aki-xcat fixtures/plain.txt fixtures/gztext.txt.gz

result output :

abcdefg
hijklmn
ABCDEFG
HIJKLMN

Command line example 2

concatenate plain text file, gzip text file, xz text file and zstd text file.

aki-xcat fixtures/plain.txt fixtures/gztext.txt.gz fixtures/xztext.txt.xz  fixtures/zstext.txt.zst

Library example

See fn execute() for this library examples.

Functions

execute

execute xcat