When you decompress a gzip archive with gunzip without any arguments, the archive disappears, and you're left with the decompressed file in its place. However, if you use the -c option, the archive remains, and it's decompressed output is only sent to the standard output.
My question is, can I do the same with other archiving or or compression utilities - zip, 7-zip, rar etc? That is, there the initial archive may not disappear when you decompress its contents, but I want to know how I can send the output to standard output instead of a directory