Gzip support in importers/exporters

[danmichaelo]

My disk would be happy if the various importers and exporters could work with gzipped files directly.

[phochste]

Standard input is your friend:

$ zcat large.mrc.gz | catmandu convert MARC to MARC --fix myfixes.txt " | gzip > output.gz

[danmichaelo]

You're right, piping works well for this, and is more in line with unix philosophy I guess :)

[phochste]

Yes :-) The unix eco system is so rich that you want to exploit that. Combining with grep , awk , sed , parallel , wc gives endless combinations