[sclug] Multi-format uncompress

[Simon Huggins]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:26:17PM +0100, Derek M Jones wrote:
> I have found various programs that will uncompress individual formats
> (so a shell script could use file suffix information to call the
> appropriate program).  Does anybody know of a Linux program that can
> deduce the format by looking at the file contents (and do the
> uncompression)?

I use lz and uz all the time.
http://hjbaader.de/download/lz_e.html

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