Hi Guru's

I have been looking into the Compress:Zlib module, and the compression/decompression of the logs works great, however, I need to report on extended statistics of the completed gzip'd file.

What I mean is this, with the gzip utility you can get a "long listing" report on the statistics within the compressed file, eg:

gzip -lv pook.log.gz | tail +2
defla 3ddb5103 Aug 16 15:28  26203165  52428800  50.0% pook.log

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Is there any way that I could possibly get the same details from the Compress::Zlib module, rather than spawning a system command for a "gzip -l" after using the module to compress the log file.

I have looked at the documentation for Compress:Zlib, but there does not appear to be any variables that return these details (i may be blind though). If anyone knows of a module that may extract this info from the gzip'd file please could you let me know. Any pointers would be greatky apperciated.

Thanks
Asgaroth

In reply to Compress::Zlib or equivilent by Asgaroth

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