Decompressing a .lzo file using shell script

bash shell unix compression lzo
Vikas picture Vikas · Jun 6, 2013 · Viewed 31k times · Source

Ok so i did a fair bit of search on the web and did not find any answers. I am writing a shell script wherein I need to decompress a .lzo file. Do not see any leads. Anyone has any idea? I am basically reading a timestamped log file. My scripts accepts the year, month, date as arguments. I am able to locate my file but now when I have to decompress it, I have no clue how to handle a .lzo file. Help needed.

Thanks in advance.

Answer

l0b0 picture l0b0 · Jun 6, 2013

Literally what I did to figure this out:

$ apropos lzo
IO::Uncompress::AnyUncompress (3perl) - Uncompress gzip, zip, bzip2 or lzop file/buffer

Alright, so it's probably got something to do with lzop

$ lzo
No command 'lzo' found, did you mean:
 Command 'lz' from package 'mtools' (main)
 Command 'lzop' from package 'lzop' (universe)
lzo: command not found

The last one looks like it.

$ sudo apt-get install lzop
$ lzop 
[...]
Commands:
  -1     compress faster                   -9    compress better
  -d     decompress                        -x    extract (same as -dPp)

Aaand chocolate for everyone!

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