Re: Re: compressing VERY LARGE files

Many linux boxes also have the which command, so this could be simplified to,

my $prog;
for (qw/bzip2 gzip compress/) {
  chomp($prog = qx|which $_|);
  last if $prog;
}
print "Found: $prog\n";
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Re: Re: Re: compressing VERY LARGE files by RMGir (Prior) on Sep 27, 2002 at 13:52 UTC
As gnu@perl said in his original post, the compression binaries may not be in the user's path. which tells you where a program lies on your path, "which" may not help in this case... It could be added as an additional test, though. -- Mike	[reply]