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Re: Reading out the Uncompressed Size of a compressed File
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Reading out the Uncompressed Size of a compressed File |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:34:01 +0200 |
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nordl=F6w?= <per.nordlow@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 03:16:50 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Is there quick a way to determine the uncompressed size of a
> compressed file?
>
> Does gzip have this in its meta-data somehow?
>
> I already know that we can figure this out by doing with-temp-buffer
> insert-file-contents() and reading (point-max)-1 if we have auto-
> compression-mode enabled.
>
> But is there a faster way?
"gzip -l FILE" will show you the uncompressed size of FILE.