#!/usr/bin/perl use strict ; use warnings ; use IO::Compress::Gzip qw(gzip $GzipError); gzip '-' => '-', Minimal => 1 or die "gzstream: $GzipError\n" ; #exit 0; __END__ #my $gz = new IO::Compress::Gzip *STDOUT my $gz = new IO::Compress::Gzip '-' or die "gzstream: Cannot open stdout as gzip stream: $GzipError\n" ; while (<>) { $gz->write($_) or die "gzstream: Error writing gzip output stream: $GzipError\n" ; } $gz->close or die "gzstream: Error closing gzip output stream: $GzipError\n" ;