On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 14:18, Stefan Kühn <[email protected]> wrote:
> I work with perl and need the
> uncompressed file in XML to read the dump. I have no idea how to read
> with perl a compressed file.

Is it sufficient to receive the XML on stdin or do you need to be able to seek?

It is trivial to give you XML on stdin e.g.
$ < path/to/bz2 bzip2 -d | perl script.pl

-Jeremy

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