Hi haukex, thank you so much for your reply. Managed to get it to work. However what happens if I want to read multiple bz2 files instead of 1 bz2 file? My current code is: 
my $filename = "debug.log.bz2";
my $fh = IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2->new($filename)
    or die "bunzip2 $filename: $IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2::Bunzip2Error"
+;
while(<$fh>){
  #do something
}

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