Extract (stream-like) compressed wordlist directly to shell, line by line

Question

I want to extract a huge wordlist and use its contents like a "stream" to the shell.

This would permit one to perform dictionary attacks without having to decompress the entire wordlist.

Answer 1

A little bit more searching, and I've just found this here:

7z e -so -bd "$@" 2>/dev/null compressed_file.7z | tail

This would print the last 10 lines of the compressed file without having to extract or store it, sending all errors to /dev/null. This is just what I needed!