in reply to Recommendation to zip/unzip gzip files

I would go with PerlIO::gzip and see Compressing Data On The Fly
use PerlIO::gzip; open FOO, "<:gzip", "file.gz" or die $!; print while <FOO>; # And it will be uncompressed... binmode FOO, ":gzip(none)" # Starts reading deflate stream from here + on

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