gzstream

source of perl for linux application,

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict ;
use warnings ;
use IO::Compress::Gzip qw(gzip $GzipError);

gzip '-' => '-', Minimal => 1
  or die "gzstream: $GzipError\n" ;

#exit 0;

__END__

#my $gz = new IO::Compress::Gzip *STDOUT 
my $gz = new IO::Compress::Gzip '-'
	  or die "gzstream: Cannot open stdout as gzip stream: $GzipError\n" ;

while (<>) {
    $gz->write($_) 
	or die "gzstream: Error writing gzip output stream: $GzipError\n" ;
}

$gz->close
    or die "gzstream: Error closing gzip output stream: $GzipError\n" ;