John W. Krahn wrote:
open FILE, "ls -tr | zcat -d $directory/$file |", or die qq/you
My version of zcat does not have a -d switch, what does it do on your
system? It appears that "ls -tr | " in front of zcat is superfluous?
What do you think it will do there?
Just to follow up on this,
zcat -d option does below
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# zcat -?
zcat 1.3.5
(2002-09-30)
usage: zcat [-cdfhlLnNrtvV19] [-S suffix] [file ...]
-c --stdout write on standard output, keep original files unchanged
-d --decompress decompress
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