Dear Masters,
I have list of gzip files: 
file1.gz
file2.gz
file3.gz

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Is there Perl ways to join or compressing these files into one gzip file (one batch file) without having to decompress them individually? Moreover we want to preserve the files in gzip format after unzipping the batch file.

In practice we will use this in a web database (CGI). Where the web will receive a query from user and list out all the files based on the query and present them in a batch file back to the user.

I understand that we can do: 
cat file1.gz file2.gz file3.gz > allfiles.gz

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However upon gunzipping allfiles.gz the files  file1.gz file2.gz file3.gz were not preserved in their existing gzip format.

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neversaint and everlastingly indebted.......

In reply to Perl Way To Gzipping/Joining Multiple Gzip Files by neversaint

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