Re: Decompress partially a gzipped file until a certain length?

[nitnerolf]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> 
> 
> You can use "gzip -cd file.gz | dd ibs=1024 count=10" to uncompress just
> the
> first 10 KiB, for example.  Or if you want to delve into C you can use
> zlib.
> 
> 

Thanks ! This works out.
In the meantime I have thought about it and came up with using "zcat | fold
-w80 | head -n1000".
The fold command breaks the header into lines, as it is written in only one
line, and the head command limits the final number of lines to read.

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