Sorry - the hidden constraint was that nothing could be transferred back to the other computer's hard drive, since I don't have the disk space to stash the files.
I figured out a better, more parallel solution to my problem, but I appreciate the ideas! -DMZ On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 13:53 -0500, Peter Teuben wrote: > On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, David Zakar wrote: > > > I've been Googling all day for this, but can't seem to find an answer. > > > > I have a gzipped text file on a web server. Using another machine, how can > > I > > open that text file and read it line by line with Perl? SSH is not an > > option > > - it has to be over http. > > there must be more to this, because this works: > wget url | gzip -dc | ....
