On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 14:18, Stefan Kühn <kuehn-s(a)gmx.net> wrote:
I work with perl and need the
uncompressed file in XML to read the dump. I have no idea how to read
with perl a compressed file.
Is it sufficient to receive the XML on stdin or do you need to be able to seek?
It is trivial to give you XML on stdin e.g.
$ < path/to/bz2 bzip2 -d | perl script.pl
-Jeremy