#include #include #include /* Trivial example of reading a gzip'ed file or gzip'ed standard input * using stdio functions fread(), getc(), etc... fseek() is not supported. * Modify according to your needs. You can easily construct the symmetric * zwrite program. * * Usage: zread [file[.gz]] * This programs assumes that gzip is somewhere in your path. */ int main (int argc, char **argv) { FILE *infile; char cmd[256]; char buf[BUFSIZ]; int n; if (argc < 1 || argc > 2) { fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s [file[.gz]]\n", argv[0]); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } strcpy(cmd, "gzip -dc "); /* use "gzip -c" for zwrite */ if (argc == 2) { strncat(cmd, argv[1], sizeof(cmd)-strlen(cmd)); } infile = popen(cmd, "r"); /* use "w" for zwrite */ if (infile == NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "%s: popen('%s', 'r') failed\n", argv[0], cmd); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* Read one byte using getc: */ n = getc(infile); if (n == EOF) { pclose(infile); exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } putchar(n); /* Read the rest using fread: */ for (;;) { n = fread(buf, 1, BUFSIZ, infile); if (n <= 0) break; fwrite(buf, 1, n, stdout); } if (pclose(infile) != 0) { fprintf(stderr, "%s: pclose failed\n", argv[0]); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); return 0; /* just to make compiler happy */ }