> I am having a lot of trouble writing a script to search 
> through the contents of a list of zipped files.  I have 
> numerous files which are zipped using gzip, and I do not have 
> the permissions to unzip them.  I can, however, "less" the 
> file and view its contents 

That makes no sense. If you can read the file, you can extract the contents
from it. Are you in a 'sudo' jail where you are not allowed to run 'gunzip'?

Try Archive::Tar, which if IO::Zlib is installed, will be able to read the
files.




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