Quoting Hakan Bayındır (2022-08-19 17:47:42) > I’d object that, because after we rotate the logs, we use a lot of z > commands, namely zcat, zgrep, zless. Which allows us process many gigabytes > of gzip files without extracting them first. > > We have a big cluster at office and a central logging system. That system > handles close to a thousand machines at the same time, and we neither have > disk space, nor processing power problems. > > Sorry for not agreeing with your idea, but operations needs this kind of > interoperability and composability. $ apt-file search /bin/zcat gzip: /bin/zcat zutils: /bin/zcat It sounds like you are using zcat from gzip which indeed can only handle gzip compression. Why don't you use zcat from zutils? $ apt-file show zutils zutils: /bin/zcat zutils: /bin/zcmp zutils: /bin/zdiff zutils: /bin/zegrep zutils: /bin/zfgrep zutils: /bin/zgrep zutils: /bin/ztest zutils: /bin/zupdate zutils: /etc/zutilsrc $ apt-cache show zutils [...] Description-en: utilities for dealing with compressed files transparently Zutils is a collection of utilities for dealing with any combination of compressed and non-compressed files transparently. Currently the supported compressors are gzip, bzip2, lzip, xz, and zstd. Problem solved?
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