IO::Compress::Bzip2 - Write bzip2 files/buffers
- use IO::Compress::Bzip2 qw(bzip2 $Bzip2Error) ;
- my $status = bzip2 $input => $output [,OPTS]
- or die "bzip2 failed: $Bzip2Error\n";
- my $z = new IO::Compress::Bzip2 $output [,OPTS]
- or die "bzip2 failed: $Bzip2Error\n";
- $z->print($string);
- $z->printf($format, $string);
- $z->write($string);
- $z->syswrite($string [, $length, $offset]);
- $z->flush();
- $z->tell();
- $z->eof();
- $z->seek($position, $whence);
- $z->binmode();
- $z->fileno();
- $z->opened();
- $z->autoflush();
- $z->input_line_number();
- $z->newStream( [OPTS] );
- $z->close() ;
- $Bzip2Error ;
- # IO::File mode
- print $z $string;
- printf $z $format, $string;
- tell $z
- eof $z
- seek $z, $position, $whence
- binmode $z
- fileno $z
- close $z ;
This module provides a Perl interface that allows writing bzip2 compressed data to files or buffer.
For reading bzip2 files/buffers, see the companion module IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2.
A top-level function, bzip2
, is provided to carry out
"one-shot" compression between buffers and/or files. For finer
control over the compression process, see the OO Interface
section.
The functional interface needs Perl5.005 or better.
bzip2
expects at least two parameters,
$input_filename_or_reference
and $output_filename_or_reference
.
$input_filename_or_reference
parameterThe parameter, $input_filename_or_reference
, is used to define the
source of the uncompressed data.
It can take one of the following forms:
If the <$input_filename_or_reference> parameter is a simple scalar, it is assumed to be a filename. This file will be opened for reading and the input data will be read from it.
If the $input_filename_or_reference
parameter is a filehandle, the input
data will be read from it. The string '-' can be used as an alias for
standard input.
If $input_filename_or_reference
is a scalar reference, the input data
will be read from $$input_filename_or_reference
.
If $input_filename_or_reference
is an array reference, each element in
the array must be a filename.
The input data will be read from each file in turn.
The complete array will be walked to ensure that it only contains valid filenames before any data is compressed.
If $input_filename_or_reference
is a string that is delimited by the
characters "<" and ">" bzip2
will assume that it is an
input fileglob string. The input is the list of files that match the
fileglob.
See File::GlobMapper for more details.
If the $input_filename_or_reference
parameter is any other type,
undef
will be returned.
$output_filename_or_reference
parameterThe parameter $output_filename_or_reference
is used to control the
destination of the compressed data. This parameter can take one of
these forms.
If the $output_filename_or_reference
parameter is a simple scalar, it is
assumed to be a filename. This file will be opened for writing and the
compressed data will be written to it.
If the $output_filename_or_reference
parameter is a filehandle, the
compressed data will be written to it. The string '-' can be used as
an alias for standard output.
If $output_filename_or_reference
is a scalar reference, the
compressed data will be stored in $$output_filename_or_reference
.
If $output_filename_or_reference
is an array reference,
the compressed data will be pushed onto the array.
If $output_filename_or_reference
is a string that is delimited by the
characters "<" and ">" bzip2
will assume that it is an
output fileglob string. The output is the list of files that match the
fileglob.
When $output_filename_or_reference
is an fileglob string,
$input_filename_or_reference
must also be a fileglob string. Anything
else is an error.
See File::GlobMapper for more details.
If the $output_filename_or_reference
parameter is any other type,
undef
will be returned.
When $input_filename_or_reference
maps to multiple files/buffers and
$output_filename_or_reference
is a single
file/buffer the input files/buffers will be stored
in $output_filename_or_reference
as a concatenated series of compressed data streams.
Unless specified below, the optional parameters for bzip2
,
OPTS
, are the same as those used with the OO interface defined in the
Constructor Options section below.
AutoClose => 0|1
This option applies to any input or output data streams to
bzip2
that are filehandles.
If AutoClose
is specified, and the value is true, it will result in all
input and/or output filehandles being closed once bzip2
has
completed.
This parameter defaults to 0.
BinModeIn => 0|1
When reading from a file or filehandle, set binmode
before reading.
Defaults to 0.
Append => 0|1
The behaviour of this option is dependent on the type of output data stream.
If Append
is enabled, all compressed data will be append to the end of
the output buffer. Otherwise the output buffer will be cleared before any
compressed data is written to it.
If Append
is enabled, the file will be opened in append mode. Otherwise
the contents of the file, if any, will be truncated before any compressed
data is written to it.
If Append
is enabled, the filehandle will be positioned to the end of
the file via a call to seek
before any compressed data is
written to it. Otherwise the file pointer will not be moved.
When Append
is specified, and set to true, it will append all compressed
data to the output data stream.
So when the output is a filehandle it will carry out a seek to the eof before writing any compressed data. If the output is a filename, it will be opened for appending. If the output is a buffer, all compressed data will be appended to the existing buffer.
Conversely when Append
is not specified, or it is present and is set to
false, it will operate as follows.
When the output is a filename, it will truncate the contents of the file before writing any compressed data. If the output is a filehandle its position will not be changed. If the output is a buffer, it will be wiped before any compressed data is output.
Defaults to 0.
To read the contents of the file file1.txt
and write the compressed
data to the file file1.txt.bz2
.
To read from an existing Perl filehandle, $input
, and write the
compressed data to a buffer, $buffer
.
To compress all files in the directory "/my/home" that match "*.txt" and store the compressed data in the same directory
and if you want to compress each file one at a time, this will do the trick
The format of the constructor for IO::Compress::Bzip2
is shown below
It returns an IO::Compress::Bzip2
object on success and undef on failure.
The variable $Bzip2Error
will contain an error message on failure.
If you are running Perl 5.005 or better the object, $z
, returned from
IO::Compress::Bzip2 can be used exactly like an IO::File filehandle.
This means that all normal output file operations can be carried out
with $z
.
For example, to write to a compressed file/buffer you can use either of
these forms
- $z->print("hello world\n");
- print $z "hello world\n";
The mandatory parameter $output
is used to control the destination
of the compressed data. This parameter can take one of these forms.
If the $output
parameter is a simple scalar, it is assumed to be a
filename. This file will be opened for writing and the compressed data
will be written to it.
If the $output
parameter is a filehandle, the compressed data will be
written to it.
The string '-' can be used as an alias for standard output.
If $output
is a scalar reference, the compressed data will be stored
in $$output
.
If the $output
parameter is any other type, IO::Compress::Bzip2
::new will
return undef.
OPTS
is any combination of the following options:
AutoClose => 0|1
This option is only valid when the $output
parameter is a filehandle. If
specified, and the value is true, it will result in the $output
being
closed once either the close
method is called or the IO::Compress::Bzip2
object is destroyed.
This parameter defaults to 0.
Append => 0|1
Opens $output
in append mode.
The behaviour of this option is dependent on the type of $output
.
If $output
is a buffer and Append
is enabled, all compressed data
will be append to the end of $output
. Otherwise $output
will be
cleared before any data is written to it.
If $output
is a filename and Append
is enabled, the file will be
opened in append mode. Otherwise the contents of the file, if any, will be
truncated before any compressed data is written to it.
If $output
is a filehandle, the file pointer will be positioned to the
end of the file via a call to seek
before any compressed data is written
to it. Otherwise the file pointer will not be moved.
This parameter defaults to 0.
BlockSize100K => number
Specify the number of 100K blocks bzip2 uses during compression.
Valid values are from 1 to 9, where 9 is best compression.
The default is 1.
WorkFactor => number
Specifies how much effort bzip2 should take before resorting to a slower fallback compression algorithm.
Valid values range from 0 to 250, where 0 means use the default value 30.
The default is 0.
Strict => 0|1
This is a placeholder option.
TODO
Usage is
- $z->print($data)
- print $z $data
Compresses and outputs the contents of the $data
parameter. This
has the same behaviour as the print
built-in.
Returns true if successful.
Usage is
- $z->printf($format, $data)
- printf $z $format, $data
Compresses and outputs the contents of the $data
parameter.
Returns true if successful.
Usage is
- $z->syswrite $data
- $z->syswrite $data, $length
- $z->syswrite $data, $length, $offset
Compresses and outputs the contents of the $data
parameter.
Returns the number of uncompressed bytes written, or undef
if
unsuccessful.
Usage is
- $z->write $data
- $z->write $data, $length
- $z->write $data, $length, $offset
Compresses and outputs the contents of the $data
parameter.
Returns the number of uncompressed bytes written, or undef
if
unsuccessful.
Usage is
- $z->flush;
Flushes any pending compressed data to the output file/buffer.
TODO
Returns true on success.
Usage is
- $z->tell()
- tell $z
Returns the uncompressed file offset.
Usage is
- $z->eof();
- eof($z);
Returns true if the close
method has been called.
- $z->seek($position, $whence);
- seek($z, $position, $whence);
Provides a sub-set of the seek
functionality, with the restriction
that it is only legal to seek forward in the output file/buffer.
It is a fatal error to attempt to seek backward.
Empty parts of the file/buffer will have NULL (0x00) bytes written to them.
The $whence
parameter takes one the usual values, namely SEEK_SET,
SEEK_CUR or SEEK_END.
Returns 1 on success, 0 on failure.
Usage is
- $z->binmode
- binmode $z ;
This is a noop provided for completeness.
- $z->opened()
Returns true if the object currently refers to a opened file/buffer.
If the $z
object is associated with a file or a filehandle, this method
returns the current autoflush setting for the underlying filehandle. If
EXPR
is present, and is non-zero, it will enable flushing after every
write/print operation.
If $z
is associated with a buffer, this method has no effect and always
returns undef
.
Note that the special variable $|
cannot be used to set or
retrieve the autoflush setting.
- $z->input_line_number()
- $z->input_line_number(EXPR)
This method always returns undef
when compressing.
- $z->fileno()
- fileno($z)
If the $z
object is associated with a file or a filehandle, fileno
will return the underlying file descriptor. Once the close
method is
called fileno
will return undef
.
If the $z
object is associated with a buffer, this method will return
undef
.
- $z->close() ;
- close $z ;
Flushes any pending compressed data and then closes the output file/buffer.
For most versions of Perl this method will be automatically invoked if
the IO::Compress::Bzip2 object is destroyed (either explicitly or by the
variable with the reference to the object going out of scope). The
exceptions are Perl versions 5.005 through 5.00504 and 5.8.0. In
these cases, the close
method will be called automatically, but
not until global destruction of all live objects when the program is
terminating.
Therefore, if you want your scripts to be able to run on all versions
of Perl, you should call close
explicitly and not rely on automatic
closing.
Returns true on success, otherwise 0.
If the AutoClose
option has been enabled when the IO::Compress::Bzip2
object was created, and the object is associated with a file, the
underlying file will also be closed.
Usage is
- $z->newStream( [OPTS] )
Closes the current compressed data stream and starts a new one.
OPTS consists of any of the options that are available when creating
the $z
object.
See the Constructor Options section for more details.
No symbolic constants are required by this IO::Compress::Bzip2 at present.
Imports bzip2
and $Bzip2Error
.
Same as doing this
- use IO::Compress::Bzip2 qw(bzip2 $Bzip2Error) ;
Compress::Zlib, IO::Compress::Gzip, IO::Uncompress::Gunzip, IO::Compress::Deflate, IO::Uncompress::Inflate, IO::Compress::RawDeflate, IO::Uncompress::RawInflate, IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2, IO::Compress::Lzma, IO::Uncompress::UnLzma, IO::Compress::Xz, IO::Uncompress::UnXz, IO::Compress::Lzop, IO::Uncompress::UnLzop, IO::Compress::Lzf, IO::Uncompress::UnLzf, IO::Uncompress::AnyInflate, IO::Uncompress::AnyUncompress
File::GlobMapper, Archive::Zip, Archive::Tar, IO::Zlib
The primary site for the bzip2 program is http://www.bzip.org.
See the module Compress::Bzip2
This module was written by Paul Marquess, pmqs@cpan.org
.
See the Changes file.
Copyright (c) 2005-2017 Paul Marquess. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.