uc - the (sort of) universal UnCompressor
uc --threads integer infile1 infile2 ... > outfile uc --threads integer --in infile > outfile
uc is a semi-universal front-end to various decompression programs. It determines the type of the input file given, tries to find an appropriate decompression program in the current PATH, and, if possible, decompresses the file to STDOUT. The purpose is to facilitate use of heterogeneous inputs to data analysis pipelines by providing for "universal" decompression of compressed input data without knowing the compression format in advance.
Currently, the following formats are supported. One or more of the binaries listed below need to be present in the current PATH in order to support that file type. If multiple options are available, one will be chosen preferentially in the order listed.
Path to the input file. Reading from STDIN is not supported. Any "naked" arguments given on the command line are also assumed to be input filenames.
The number of threads to use for decompression. Support varies by decompression tool. If not specified, the default for each program is used.
Override automatic detection and explicitly specify which decompression program to use. The argument can be either the full path to the program or the name of a program in the current PATH. Used mainly for testing, since if you knew the value beforehand you wouldn't be using this software.
Show documentation and exit
Print version string and exit
This software has been tested on Linux only. While it should also work on Windows, Mac OSX, BSD, and other systems with the appropriate modules and compression tools installed, it has not been tested on these systems.
Please report all bugs or suggestions on the software repository issues page.
Jeremy Volkening (jeremy.volkening@base2bio.com)
Copyright 2020-2023 Jeremy Volkening
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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