Download a zip file and extract to a directory
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From: david.karr on 9 Apr 2010 18:34 I've written some scripts that manipulate Zip files using Archive::Zip. I'm now working on a script that uses "LWP::Simple" to download data from a URL. As part of this process I'm going to have to download a zip file from a URL and then extract that zip file to a particular directory. Can I use LWP::Simple to download a binary file directly into a variable? I've looked at the Archive::Zip methods, and it doesn't appear as if I can create the Zip object directly from the contents of a variable. Will I have to download the zip file directly to a temporary file (using "getstore($url, $file)"), I would imagine), and then create the Zip object from that? I see the "extractToFileHandle( $fh )" method on Archive::Zip. Is that file handle supposed to be a directory?
From: david.karr on 9 Apr 2010 19:27
On Apr 9, 3:34 pm, "david.karr" <davidmichaelk...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I've written some scripts that manipulate Zip files using > Archive::Zip. I'm now working on a script that uses "LWP::Simple" to > download data from a URL. As part of this process I'm going to have > to download a zip file from a URL and then extract that zip file to a > particular directory. > > Can I use LWP::Simple to download a binary file directly into a > variable? > > I've looked at the Archive::Zip methods, and it doesn't appear as if I > can create the Zip object directly from the contents of a variable. > Will I have to download the zip file directly to a temporary file > (using "getstore($url, $file)"), I would imagine), and then create the > Zip object from that? > > I see the "extractToFileHandle( $fh )" method on Archive::Zip. Is that > file handle supposed to be a directory? Oh, never mind. Using "Archive::Extract" is much easier for extraction. |