Re: archives etc

I know it's not what you asked, but instead of backticks, I like this method:

foreach (@ARGV) {
  if ($_=~/\.z$/) {
    $_="gunzip -c $_ |";
  }
}
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Putting that in front of your main loop means your while (<ARGV>) loop can process gzip files transparently.

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Re: Re: archives etc by eserte (Deacon) on Apr 21, 2004 at 13:01 UTC
.z? You actually remember the times when this was the default for gzipped files? :-)	[reply]
Re: Re: archives etc by CassJ (Sexton) on Apr 21, 2004 at 11:53 UTC
ooh, clever. But that only works if I'm opening the files in perl? What I want to do is unpack them into a directory for R (stats package) and as far as I know there's no way of passing a perl file directly to an R script. So it won't work in my case? Or have I misunderstood what it's doing? Cxx	[reply]