Re^5: Parse a tar.gz file without unzipping and uncompressing unzipping?


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Re^5: Parse a tar.gz file without unzipping and uncompressing unzipping?

by furry_marmot (Pilgrim)

on Dec 04, 2010 at 23:46 UTC ( [id://875428]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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in reply to Re^4: Parse a tar.gz file without unzipping and uncompressing unzipping?
in thread Parse a tar.gz file without unzipping and uncompressing unzipping?

I've been using Cygwin for little things like this for years. Tar, gzip, zip, bzip2, etc., all work as expected from a normal Shell window (aka DOS window). If you have gzip or other compression installed, tar will support it natively, saving you some piping.

If you want to avoid Cygwin and/or get as much performance as possible, you can also get non-Cygwin, native ports of common linux/unix utilities here.

--marmot