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Subject: zcat


> Hi
Hello,
> I have a gunzip file which I have to decompress through a perl script
> and copy the uncompressed file to another file.
> I used this
>
> system('zcat -c $filename > out');
Problem is when ever your put anything into ' ', parser will not inflate it.
so basicly $file is what zcat to be as file.

HTH,
Mark
> where the filename is stored in $filename.
>
> zcat gave me an error message that the output is not read from a
> terminal. Could you please give me an option for zcat which I can use
> for this.
>
> Thanks,
> Manas.
>
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