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+# catarc
+
+A tool to output archives and compressed files to stdout.
+
+## Use cases
+
+* Grep through multiple archives (of different types) without unpacking them.
+* Unpack multiple 7z archives to stdout, ignoring errors (7z will choke on corrupted archives).
+* Concatenate multiple archived logfiles into one file.
+* ...
+
+## Installation
+
+`pip install catarc`
+
+## Dependencies
+
+You'll need the following binaries, depending on what kinds of archives you wish to extract:
+
+* tar (.tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz)
+* 7zip (.7z)
+* gzip (.gz, .tar.gz)
+* bzip2 (.bz2, .tar.bz2)
+* xz (.xz, .tar.xz)
+* unzip (.zip)
+* unrar (.rar)
+
+Note that .tar.* types have two dependencies!
+
+## Usage
+
+	catarc *.7z | grep "something"`
+
+	catarc one.zip two.rar three.tar.gz | grep "something"
+
+	catarc access.*.gz > access.log.total
+	
+## Arguments
+
+Optionally, you can use the `-s` switch to specify a certain filesize requirement for a file to be processed. This specification is in the following format:
+
+	>1m,<2g,=3t
+	
+You can use any of these combinations, but obviously only one specification per operator. Valid suffixes are `k`, `m`, `g`, `t`.
+
+## Functionality and behaviour
+
+catarc will attempt to unpack the following types:
+
+* .7z
+* .tar
+* .tar.gz
+* .tar.bz2
+* .tar.xz
+* .gz
+* .bz2
+* .xz
+* .zip
+* .rar
+
+When a file is encountered that is none of the above types, catarc will write a warning to stderr and skip the file. If you are missing a dependency, catarc will tell you so.
+
+## Bugs
+
+No known bugs. If you find any, please do report them.