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Re: Decompress partially a gzipped file until a certain length?
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Decompress partially a gzipped file until a certain length? |
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Wed, 19 May 2010 10:54:12 -0700 |
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On 05/19/10 01:42, nitnerolf wrote:
> I have not found any option nor possibility to
> stop the decompression after a given decompressed length has been reached.
> Therefore I would like to know if it is possible to decompress a file until
> a certain length with gzip or zcat
You can use "gzip -cd file.gz | dd ibs=1024 count=10" to uncompress just the
first 10 KiB, for example. Or if you want to delve into C you can use zlib.