in reply to Handling very big gz.Z files

Presumably you can look at the contents of the compressed file ok?

I mean that something like

gunzip -c bnc.xml.gz.Z | more

gives you what you are expecting to see as the input data?

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Re^2: Handling very big gz.Z files
by albascura (Novice) on Feb 06, 2013 at 06:53 UTC

    That is the problem, it does.. Datas are the very same format I used in my small test file.

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