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crysis405
Asked: 2014-02-10 16:41:34 +0800 CST

Uncompress and pipe the output to script

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I have a script that takes an input with a -i flag. The input file I have is compressed (.gz). What I want to do (not sure it's possible), because the file is huge, do some thing like this:

gunzip -c myfile.gz | myScript.pl -i STDIN -o myoutfile.txt

So pipe the output of the decompression to my scripts input flag.

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  1. Best Answer

    I found the solution:

    gunzip -c myfile.gz | myScript.pl -o myoutfile.txt -i -

    it was the - after -i that did the trick.

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