On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 08:15:32PM +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 01:29:33PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > I don't think this request makes sense.  It is conventional to put
> > examples in /u/s/d/x/examples/, and to compress them; indeed,
> > debhelper dh_installexamples+dh_compress does just this.
> 
> given the nature of the scripts I consider them more as utilities, besides 
> some
> are compressed (right) some are just executable. While I can just execute non
> compressed scripts, I have to decompress them (somewhere else if not root)
> launch them and eventually remove the uncompressed file, at least this is 
> what I
> thought :)
> 
> suggestions are welcome as always
Sure; you can run the scripts like:

  perl <(zcat /usr/share/doc/lsof/examples/idrlogin.perl.gz)

<() isn't in posix, but works in bash, and seems to work in ksh, too.


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