Stefan Baebler wrote: > >> convenience aid, but if I'm processing large files I use the native >> bzip2 command line tools and pipe the data into osmosis. For example. >> > Probably a brief note in the Wiki could save quite a bit of someone's > time. Added to wiki. > Thanks! > >> bzcat planet.bz2 | osmosis --rx /dev/stdin --wn >> > Nice on unixes, but I can't seem to read "/dev/stdin" in Cygwin. > I tried that to pipe the planet straight from wget -> osmosis without > writing the planet to file. > putting native bzip in between would improve perofrmance quite a bit. > wget -O - http://.... | bzip -c | osmosis -rx /dev/stdin ... > I've been expecting someone to complain about this eventually :-) > Can Osmosis get some alias for /dev/stdin (eg "-" would mean stdin on > reading tasks and stdout on writing tasks, or we can reserve and > handle differently "stdin" and "stdout" file names) ? > If we agree on this design i can implement it. > Yep, if you're prepared to make the change then I'm more than happy to accept a patch. "-" sounds like a good approach to me. I don't think it would be a complicated change, but if you have any questions about how osmosis is structured just ask.
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