Re: How do I Gzip a file in perl script

Just wanted to make absolutely sure that the submitt0r of this question is aware of the wonderful world of backticks.

`gzip -9 $filename`;
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will do this for you. -malloc

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Re: Re: How do I Gzip a file in perl script by Hero Zzyzzx (Curate) on May 30, 2001 at 02:08 UTC
Nanny comment: Just make sure to untaint your data, of course, if you're going to pass user supplied data to the shell. Otherwise you'll be giving hax0rz an in to your server . . . Practice safer coding: `#!/usr/bin/perl -wT use strict;` [download] See CGI Security and the null byte problem for more info.	[reply] [d/l]