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pv command, but reading compressed files
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#!/bin/bash | |
set -euo pipefail | |
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then | |
echo "Usage: $0 [pv options] <file>" | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
argv=("$@") | |
file="${argv[${#argv[@]}-1]}" | |
argv[${#argv[@]}-1]='-' | |
size_xz() { | |
xz -vl "$1" \ | |
| grep -m1 "Uncompressed size:" \ | |
| grep -o '(.* B)' \ | |
| sed 's/[(), B]//g' | |
} | |
size_gz() { | |
gzip -l "$1" \ | |
| tail -n 1 \ | |
| awk '{print $2}' | |
} | |
size_zstd() { | |
zstd -d <"$1" | wc -c | awk '{print $1}' | |
} | |
if [[ $file == *.xz ]]; then | |
size="$(size_xz "$file")" | |
cmd=(xz -d) | |
elif [[ $file == *.gz ]]; then | |
size="$(size_gz "$file")" | |
cmd=(gzip -d) | |
elif [[ $file == *.zst ]]; then | |
size="$(size_zstd "$file")" | |
cmd=(zstd -d) | |
else | |
echo "Unrecognized file extension: $file" | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
<"$file" "${cmd[@]}" | pv --size "$size" "${argv[@]}" |
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