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

text 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: //! -n, --number output line number for each lines //! -f, --file-name output file name for each lines //! --path-name output path name for each lines //! -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

1. you can build debian package:

cargo deb

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

Examples

The input file used in this example looks like this:

cat fixtures/plain.txt result output : abcdefg hijklmn

zcat fixtures/gztext.txt.gz result output : ABCDEFG HIJKLMN

Example 1: simple concatenate

concatenate plain text file and gzip text file. aki-xcat fixtures/plain.txt fixtures/gztext.txt.gz result output : abcdefg hijklmn ABCDEFG HIJKLMN

Example 2: multi file formats

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

Example 3: output all line number

concatenate plain text file and gzip text file. aki-xcat -n fixtures/plain.txt fixtures/gztext.txt.gz result output : 1 abcdefg 2 hijklmn 3 ABCDEFG 4 HIJKLMN

Example 4: file name and line number

concatenate plain text file and gzip text file. aki-xcat -n -f fixtures/plain.txt fixtures/gztext.txt.gz result output : "plain.txt" 1 abcdefg "plain.txt" 2 hijklmn "gztext.txt.gz" 1 ABCDEFG "gztext.txt.gz" 2 HIJKLMN

Example 5: path name and line number

concatenate plain text file and gzip text file. aki-xcat -n --path-name fixtures/plain.txt fixtures/gztext.txt.gz result output : "fixtures/plain.txt" 1 abcdefg "fixtures/plain.txt" 2 hijklmn "fixtures/gztext.txt.gz" 1 ABCDEFG "fixtures/gztext.txt.gz" 2 HIJKLMN

Library example

See [fn execute()] for this library examples.