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Utility to cat/gunzip a list of files

Is there a commonly-installed Linux utility that will take a list of files and cat or gzip -d (==zcat) them based on whether the file is compressed? An example of where I just needed this is when I ...
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Concatenating files from multiple subdirectories

Say I have a directory structure that looks like this: file1.txt folder1/ file2.txt folder2/ file3.txt How can I concatenate file1.txt, file2.txt, and file3.txt into a single file? Edit: ...
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Is there a GUI 'cat'-like program for any platform?

What I am looking for is a way to recombine split files without using cat. Is there such a beast? It could run on Linux or Windows or Mac OS.
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