Don't give up on bzip2 or gzip just because they may not always be in the same place.

It may be simpler to write a routine to find the executable and run it than to get a module installed across all of those machines... If you can guarantee that at least gzip is on all the boxes, it shouldn't be too hard, in fact... 

sub findCompressor {
    my @paths=(
         "/usr/bin".
         "/bin",
         "/usr/local/bin",
         "/usr/share/bin",
         "/opt/bin",
         "$ENV{HOME}/bin",
         "$ENV{HOME}/local/bin",
    );

    foreach my $prog('bzip2','gzip','compress') {
        foreach my $dir(@paths) {
            my $path="$dir/$prog";
            return $path if -x $path;
        }
    }

    # return some default non-compressing compressor??
}

# run once
my $compressor=findCompress();

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Not sure if that makes sense in your case, but I think it would work...
--
Mike

In reply to Re: compressing VERY LARGE files by RMGir
in thread compressing VERY LARGE files by gnu@perl

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