bzwc

(C) Martin Väth This project is under the BSD license 2.0 (“3-clause BSD license”). SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause

A POSIX shell wrapper for wc supporting compressed files

• .xz
• .lzma
• .br
• .bz2
• .zst
• .gz

All options of wc can be used, and as for usual wc, it is possible to pass several files as arguments.

For standard input, the name of the command

• xzwc
• lzwc
• brwc
• bzwc
• zstdwc
• `zwc

determines which type of compressed data is assumed.

Requirement

You need push.sh from https://github.com/vaeth/push (v2.0 or newer) in your $PATH.

Installation

For installation, copy the content of bin/ with executable permission in your $PATH. To obtain support for __zsh completion, you can copy the content of zsh/ to a directory of your zsh's $fpath.

For Gentoo, there is an ebuild in the mv overlay (available over layman).