[LA.pm] calling gzip from within perl

[eric richardson]

* Jeremy Leader (jleader at alumni.caltech.edu) wrote:
> Peter Benjamin wrote:
> > At 10:21 PM 6/28/2005, David Heayn wrote:
> >>       open(FILE, "gunzip $fileLoc |") or die "Cannot gunzip '$fileLoc': $!";
> >>       my @stuff = <FILE>;
> >>       close(FILE);

Jumping late into the discussion and replying to the wrong message...
That gzip call should be something like "gzip -dc $fileLoc |".  The -c
tells gzip to pipe to STDOUT, and I think that way it also doesn't
delete the .gz file.

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