Compression Functions

[William Gill]

I want to do a quick and dirty scan of Apache logs using some of the
zlib Compression Functions. My hosting company tars and gzips several
other log files into the gz file. Is there an easy way, using PHP, to
separate the files, and only process the Apache log?

[petersprc]

Hi you can exec this command

tar xzvf logs.tar.gz access_log

where access_log is the file you want to extract.

Regards,

John Peters

On Apr 28, 9:52 pm, William Gill <[e-mail]:

I want to do a quick and dirty scan of Apache logs using some of the
zlib Compression Functions. My hosting company tars and gzips several
other log files into the gz file. Is there an easy way, using PHP, to
separate the files, and only process the Apache log?

[William Gill]

petersprc wrote:

Hi you can exec this command

tar xzvf logs.tar.gz access_log

where access_log is the file you want to extract.

Thanks, but I don't remote access to the shell. I was hoping I could
use the PHP compression functions to split the files, extract to a
variable, and scan the data.

I have been playing with gzfile() but what I'm doing seems a little
crude.

[Captain Paralytic]

On 30 Apr, 13:28, William Gill <[e-mail]:

petersprc wrote:

Hi you can exec this command

tar xzvf logs.tar.gz access_log

where access_log is the file you want to extract.

Thanks, but I don't remote access to the shell. I was hoping I could
use the PHP compression functions to split the files, extract to a
variable, and scan the data.

I have been playing with gzfile() but what I'm doing seems a little
crude.

<?php
`tar xzvf logs.tar.gz access_log`;
?>

or

<?php
exec('tar xzvf logs.tar.gz access_log');
?>

[William Gill]

Captain Paralytic wrote:

<?php
`tar xzvf logs.tar.gz access_log`;
?>

or

<?php
exec('tar xzvf logs.tar.gz access_log');
?>

Thanks I hadn't used "execution operator: backticks" but it may be a
good place to look.