On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 14:18, Stefan Kühn kuehn-s@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