piping the output of gunzip ( of two files ) separately

Question

I have two compressed files. ( file1.gz and file2.gz ). I would like to unzip them and send the output to another command as separate inputs. something like:

gunzip -c file1.gz file2.gz | command -1 file1 -2 file2

How could I achieve this?

Answer 1

You can say:

command -1 <(gzip -dc file1.gz) -2 <(gzip -dc file2.gz)

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