Reading gzip+tar files

joetherod

• June 03, 2008 00:00

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I am trying to ftp a gzip+tar file. There are multiple files that are in the file. I tried the gzip:(ftp://user:password@server/path/name.gz)#file.txt syntax and it doesn't work. It seems to read the compress file as one file. Anyone have to do this?

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  admin

  • June 03, 2008 20:09

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  Clover as of current version (2.4) does not work with .tar files. It supports .zip archives though. Use them, if you can.
  
  With gzip - it assumes that you have just one file compressed and therefore the #filename has no meaning here.
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  dpavlis

  • February 23, 2009 12:22

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  New CloveETL version 2.7 contains support (read-only) for TAR archives (supports also gzipped Tar).
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  ciscochi

  • October 15, 2009 19:08

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  Can you provide an example of how gzip files are read with the universal data reader?
  
  For example, I have the following files in /data:
  a01.dat.gz
  a02.dat.gz
  a03.dat.gz
  
  I tried to set the file url as such:
  gzip:/data/a*.dat.gz
  
  That isn't recognized, however. I'm not sure what else I need to pass in as the user guide has some additional parts to the file url that I don't understand.
  
  Thanks.
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  avackova

  • October 16, 2009 08:46

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  Hello,
  brackets are missing in your path: gzip:(/data/a*.dat.gz). For full info see File url.
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  ciscochi

  • October 16, 2009 16:22

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  Thanks. That worked like a charm.
  
  My local 2.8 user guide doesn't seem to be in sync with the latest changes. I'll bookmark the online version.

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