Re^4: Parse a tar.gz file without unzipping and uncompressing unzipping?

Illuminatus, I WAS initially using Archive::Extract, but had to switch for a couple of reasons. I am on windows (because I can't convince the unix admin to allow me to store these files on the server) and since there is no bin/tar for windows, I have to use perl to do the unzipping which requires system memory. So much memory is required, that I get an "out of memory" error when extracting.

Anyway, the files are all different in each archive.

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Re^5: Parse a tar.gz file without unzipping and uncompressing unzipping? by furry_marmot (Pilgrim) on Dec 04, 2010 at 23:46 UTC
I've been using Cygwin for little things like this for years. Tar, gzip, zip, bzip2, etc., all work as expected from a normal Shell window (aka DOS window). If you have gzip or other compression installed, tar will support it natively, saving you some piping. If you want to avoid Cygwin and/or get as much performance as possible, you can also get non-Cygwin, native ports of common linux/unix utilities here. --marmot	[reply]

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Re^5: Parse a tar.gz file without unzipping and uncompressing unzipping?
by furry_marmot (Pilgrim) on Dec 04, 2010 at 23:46 UTC

I've been using Cygwin for little things like this for years. Tar, gzip, zip, bzip2, etc., all work as expected from a normal Shell window (aka DOS window). If you have gzip or other compression installed, tar will support it natively, saving you some piping.

If you want to avoid Cygwin and/or get as much performance as possible, you can also get non-Cygwin, native ports of common linux/unix utilities here.

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