Re^2: Parse a tar.gz file without unzipping and uncompressing unzipping?

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Re^3: Parse a tar.gz file without unzipping and uncompressing unzipping? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Dec 03, 2010 at 21:25 UTC
It's a bit difficult to tell a solution of HCl from plain water or thinner or Everclear et cetera without opening the bottle. And that's assuming the bottle isn't opaque or colored. Google me. I mean, uh, what was I saying?	[reply]
Re^4: Parse a tar.gz file without unzipping and uncompressing unzipping? by SuicideJunkie (Vicar) on Dec 03, 2010 at 21:56 UTC
What you're saying, I think, is that the title and question fail to recognize the difference between the basic required step of "decompressing something" and the extended sequence of "extracting files from an archive and writing them to disk". You simply can't read plaintext without doing the work of decrypting and/or unzipping the original file, because you don't HAVE the plaintext until you do. It sounds to me like "how can I avoid the use of temp files and the slowness of the HDD?" is the real question here.	[reply]
Re^5: Parse a tar.gz file without unzipping and uncompressing unzipping? by rizzy (Sexton) on Dec 04, 2010 at 00:29 UTC
Thank you for the unsnarky response. I suppose that is the real question.	[reply]
Re^4: Parse a tar.gz file without unzipping and uncompressing unzipping? by rizzy (Sexton) on Dec 04, 2010 at 00:58 UTC
It would be quick and easy to do so using spectroscopy. We could go on and on with this ... ;-)	[reply]