Uncompress and pipe the output to script

Question

I have a script that takes an input with a -i flag. The input file I have is compressed (.gz). What I want to do (not sure it's possible), because the file is huge, do some thing like this:

gunzip -c myfile.gz | myScript.pl -i STDIN -o myoutfile.txt 

So pipe the output of the decompression to my scripts input flag.

Solution

I found the solution:

gunzip -c myfile.gz | myScript.pl -o myoutfile.txt -i -

it was the - after -i that did the trick.

Comments

[web.learner]

And your question is?

[crysis405]

that command I wrote doesn't work, I want something that will

[crysis405]

sorry about the space, that should not be there. The script is now giving me an error that I haven't provided an input. Does this have to be specifically specified in the perl script, if you want to do piping like this?

[mpen]

To other readers, -c is for "to stdout"