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Friends,

I want to know if there is anyway I can extract the first few contents of a zipped file and then the next fixed and so on?

For example, suppose I have a zipped file containing 1000000 natural numbers and I want to extract the first thousand numbers and then the next thousand numbers (1001-2000) and so on till I reach the end. Is this possible?

Thanks

It should be possible, the deflate algorithm either uses a pre-built tree or builds it on the fly as it decodes, so no extra knowledge beyond that is needed to uncompress on the fly. You might not find a utility that'll do that directly but in linux you should be able to stream the output to your programs input doing something like zcat file.zip | your_program

Thanks you for your response but I don't wan't to feed that to any program instead I want to save the data in independent files, if possible.

The other thing I could do is use something like head -100 (for zipped files probably zcat), to get the first 100 values and feed it to the program and then consider data values from 101-200 and feed it. I am good with either way but don't really know if that's possible.

Thanks