On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 01:27:22 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a gunzip file which I have to decompress through a perl script
> and copy the uncompressed file to another file.
> I used this
>
> system('zcat -c $filename > out');
> where the filename is stored in $filename.
>
> zcat gave me an error message that the output is not read from a
> terminal. Could you please give me an option for zcat which I can use
> for this.
zcat [ -fhLV ] [ name ... ]
man zcat suggests -c is not an option.
-f --force
-h --help
-L --license
-V --version
what happens when you try it without the -c option?
Owen
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