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* James E Keenan via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> [2013-01-31 01:45]: > Would it be possible to re-send this log in a '.gz' or plain-text > format? That's what we usually expect for attachments to this list. You should have no trouble decompressing it. xz is widespread at this point, many of the big Linux distributions and at least FreeBSD use it to compress their packages now. It has the same command line interface as gzip (xz -c/-d, unxz, xzcat, xzless etc.) and recent GNU and BSD tar are both xz-aware. Package xz-utils in Debian flavours, xz everywhere else that I know of. It is astonishingly space-efficient given CPU and memory aplenty during compression. On large repetitive log files I regularly see compression ratios of 1000:1, megabytes in kilobytes. Maybe the reason I haven’t seen even higher ratios is just that I haven’t fed it files big enough. Decompression is fast and cheap no matter the compression level. Try it, it’s great. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>Thread Previous