On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Frank Newland wrote:
> I want to print the contents of an archived file. When I run this script,
> all it does is uncompress my file.
>
> Q:
> 1. Isn't CONTENTS a file handle to the uncompressed file?
No. I think what you want is uncompress -c, which dumps the file to
standard output, so you can pipe it to something, like tar or whatever.
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use strict ;
> open (CONTENTS, "compress -d archive.Z | " ) or die "In the
> rain....alone";
> while (<CONTENTS>) {
> chomp ;
> print ;
> }
> close (CONTENTS) or die "like Arch Stanton..."
Why are you chomping? If you strip trailing newlines, your output is
going to be all run together.
-- Brett
Brett W. McCoy
Software Engineer
Broadsoft, Inc.
240-364-5225
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