[lug] unzip froma pipe

[John Hernandez]

Jason Davis wrote:
> Hello,
>  I have read the man page for unzip. I did not see a flag to read from
> STDIN. Is this possible?
> 
> I have a zip file stored as a perl string. I would like to open a pipe
> to unzip and pipe the string into it.
> 
> Thanks,
> jd
> 

A couple options:

Try the Archive::Zip module at 
http://search.cpan.org/~nedkonz/Archive-Zip-1.13/

or try using a named pipe if a file specification of - won't work.

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