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Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l .nh .SH NAME streamzip \- create a zip file from stdin .SH SYNOPSIS .IX Header "SYNOPSIS" .Vb 2 \& producer | streamzip [opts] | consumer \& producer | streamzip [opts] \-zipfile=output.zip .Ve .SH DESCRIPTION .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" This program will read data from \f(CW\*(C`stdin\*(C'\fR, compress it into a zip container and, by default, write a \fIstreamed\fR zip file to \f(CW\*(C`stdout\*(C'\fR. No temporary files are created. .PP The zip container written to \f(CW\*(C`stdout\*(C'\fR is, by necessity, written in streaming format. Most programs that read Zip files can cope with a streamed zip file, but if interoperability is important, and your workflow allows you to write the zip file directly to disk you can create a non-streamed zip file using the \f(CW\*(C`zipfile\*(C'\fR option. .SS OPTIONS .IX Subsection "OPTIONS" .IP \-zip64 5 .IX Item "-zip64" Create a Zip64\-compliant zip container. Use this option if the input is greater than 4Gig. .Sp Default is disabled. .IP \-zipfile=F 5 .IX Item "-zipfile=F" Write zip container to the filename \f(CW\*(C`F\*(C'\fR. .Sp Use the \f(CW\*(C`Stream\*(C'\fR option to force the creation of a streamed zip file. .IP \-member\-name=M 5 .IX Item "-member-name=M" This option is used to name the "file" in the zip container. .Sp Default is '\-'. .IP \-stream 5 .IX Item "-stream" Ignored when writing to \f(CW\*(C`stdout\*(C'\fR. .Sp If the \f(CW\*(C`zipfile\*(C'\fR option is specified, including this option will trigger the creation of a streamed zip file. .Sp Default: Always enabled when writing to \f(CW\*(C`stdout\*(C'\fR, otherwise disabled. .IP \-method=M 5 .IX Item "-method=M" Compress using method \f(CW\*(C`M\*(C'\fR. .Sp Valid method names are .Sp .Vb 6 \& * store Store without compression \& * deflate Use Deflate compression [Deflault] \& * bzip2 Use Bzip2 compression \& * lzma Use LZMA compression \& * xz Use xz compression \& * zstd Use Zstandard compression .Ve .Sp Note that Lzma compress needs \f(CW\*(C`IO::Compress::Lzma\*(C'\fR to be installed. .Sp Note that Zstd compress needs \f(CW\*(C`IO::Compress::Zstd\*(C'\fR to be installed. .Sp Default is \f(CW\*(C`deflate\*(C'\fR. .IP "\-0, \-1, \-2, \-3, \-4, \-5, \-6, \-7, \-8, \-9" 5 .IX Item "-0, -1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7, -8, -9" Sets the compression level for \f(CW\*(C`deflate\*(C'\fR. Ignored for all other compression methods. .Sp \&\f(CW\-0\fR means no compression and \f(CW\-9\fR for maximum compression. .Sp Default is 6 .IP \-version 5 .IX Item "-version" Display version number .IP \-help 5 .IX Item "-help" Display help .SS Examples .IX Subsection "Examples" Create a zip file bt reading daa from stdin .PP .Vb 1 \& $ echo Lorem ipsum dolor sit | perl ./bin/streamzip >abcd.zip .Ve .PP Check the contents of \f(CW\*(C`abcd,zip\*(C'\fR with the standard \f(CW\*(C`unzip\*(C'\fR utility .PP .Vb 6 \& Archive: abcd.zip \& Length Date Time Name \& \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- \-\-\-\-\- \-\-\-\- \& 22 2021\-01\-08 19:45 \- \& \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- \-\-\-\-\-\-\- \& 22 1 file .Ve .PP Notice how the \f(CW\*(C`Name\*(C'\fR is set to \f(CW\*(C`\-\*(C'\fR. That is the default for a few zip utilities whwre the member name is not given. .PP If you want to explicitly name the file, use the \f(CW\*(C`\-member\-name\*(C'\fR option as follows .PP .Vb 1 \& $ echo Lorem ipsum dolor sit | perl ./bin/streamzip \-member\-name latin >abcd.zip \& \& $ unzip \-l abcd.zip \& Archive: abcd.zip \& Length Date Time Name \& \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- \-\-\-\-\- \-\-\-\- \& 22 2021\-01\-08 19:47 latin \& \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- \-\-\-\-\-\-\- \& 22 1 file .Ve .SS "When to write a Streamed Zip File" .IX Subsection "When to write a Streamed Zip File" A Streamed Zip File is useful in situations where you cannot seek backwards/forwards in the file. .PP A good examples is when you are serving dynamic content from a Web Server straight into a socket without needing to create a temporary zip file in the filesystsm. .PP Similarly if your workfow uses a Linux pipelined commands. .SH SUPPORT .IX Header "SUPPORT" General feedback/questions/bug reports should be sent to (preferred) or . .SH AUTHOR .IX Header "AUTHOR" Paul Marquess \fIpmqs@cpan.org\fR. .SH COPYRIGHT .IX Header "COPYRIGHT" Copyright (c) 2019\-2022 Paul Marquess. All rights reserved. .PP This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.