zutils (lzip-aware replacements for zcat, zgrep, etc) zutils is a collection of utilities able to process any combination of compressed and uncompressed files transparently. If any file given, including standard input, is compressed, its decompressed content is used. Compressed files are decompressed on the fly; no temporary files are created. Data format is detected by its identifier string (magic bytes), not by the file name extension. Empty files are considered uncompressed. These utilities are not wrapper scripts but safer and more efficient C++ programs. In particular, the option '--recursive' is efficient in those utilities supporting it. Since Slackware already has zcat, zcmp, zdiff, and zgrep commands, this package installs its binaries to /opt/zutils/bin. A profile script is provided that sets PATH and MANPATH so the zutils versions will be used by default. The profile script gets sourced upon login, but you can manually "source /etc/profile.d/zutils.sh" right after installing the package.