aki-xcat

aki-xcat is the program that concatenate files that are plain, gzip ... etc.

Features

aki-xcat concatenate files that are plain, gzip ... etc.

• command help

aki-xcat --help

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

this is like a cat, zcat, xzcat, zstdcat and lz4cat.
with no <file> or when <file> is -, read standard input.
automatic discovery file type: plain, gz, xz, zst and lz4.

Options:
  -p, --pipe-in <num>   read from pipe <num> [unimplemented]

  -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, lz4.

Examples:
  You can simple use. Just arrange the files.
    aki-xcat file1 file2.gz file3.xz file4.zst file5.lz4

• minimum support rustc 1.38.0

Quick install

1. you can install this into cargo bin path:

cargo install aki-xcat

2. you can build debian package:

cargo deb

and install .deb into your local repository of debian package.

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, zstd text file and lz4 text file.

aki-xcat fixtures/plain.txt fixtures/gztext.txt.gz fixtures/xztext.txt.xz  fixtures/zstext.txt.zst fixtures/lz4text.txt.lz4

Library example

See fn execute() for this library examples.