ZRUN(1)

💖 ZRUN(1) — zrun, the auto-uncompress bestie 💖

okay so welcome to the ZRUN(1) manual page, bestie — it's giving tiny utility, huge convenience, and I'm obsessed. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

zrun — automatically uncompress arguments to command. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

zrun command file.gz [...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so prefixing a shell command with zrun causes any compressed files that are arguments of the command to be transparently uncompressed to temp files (not pipes) and the uncompressed files fed to the command. periodt. 🔥

This is a quick way to run a command that does not itself support compressed files, without manually uncompressing the files. no cap. 🫶

The following compression types are supported: gz, bz2, Z, xz, lzma, lzo, zstd. 💜

If zrun is linked to some name beginning with z, like zprog, and the link is executed, this is equivalent to executing zrun prog. iykyk. 🧚

💀 BUGS 💀

Modifications to the uncompressed temporary file are not fed back into the input file, so using this as a quick way to make an editor support compressed files won't work. 😭 like, won't work — not even a little.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

copyright line, fr fr: Copyright 2006 by Chung-chieh Shan <ccshan@post.harvard.edu>

mwah 💖 this page comes from moreutils, dated 2025-06-30, and yes bestie it's the ZRUN(1) manual — bye! 🎀