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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Passing resulted string name of a gzipped file as an argument to another piped tool Post 302941734 by amarn on Monday 20th of April 2015 02:19:03 PM
Old 04-20-2015
Passing resulted string name of a gzipped file as an argument to another piped tool
Hi,

I have a .pcap.gz file and I would like to initially gzip it and then pass the resulting .pcap filename as an argument to a piped tool; the right-hand tool is not standardized linux tool but a custom one that strictly requires the string name of a given .pcap file in order for the pcap file to be processed. Anyhow,

For example, the tool works fine if i state the following on an already unzipped file :
Code:
./my_tool -I -C source="file.pcap" > text_format_of_pcap

I've tried the following just to check on whether it would work directly on a gzipped (however as anticipated it didn't):

Code:
gzip -c myfile.pcap.gz > ../mydirectory/ | my_tool -I -C

Therefore, I was wondering on whether there is a way to use stdin or something else to do that?

Thanks in advance
 

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toolbar

toolbar(3erl)						     Erlang Module Definition						     toolbar(3erl)

NAME

       toolbar - GUI for Starting Tools and User Contributions

DESCRIPTION

       Toolbar makes it easier to use the different Erlang tools - and the user contributions - which are provided. It has a graphical user inter-
       face with an icon for each tool. Clicking the icon activates the corresponding tool.

       All tools to be included on Toolbar must have a configuration file containing information about the tool, for example  its  start  function
       and help information location. Configuration files must have the .tool suffix.

       When  started,  Toolbar automatically checks for *.tool files in the current path and adds the corresponding tools. For each ebin directory
       found in the path, it will also look in a priv directory next to it. This is a feature of the Erlang file structure.

EXPORTS

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	      Returns the current version number of Toolbar.

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	      Makes a search for new tool files in the current path and adds the corresponding tools to Toolbar window.

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