Compress files while reading data from STDIN

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Is it possible to compress  create a compressed archive  data while reading from stdin on Linux

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gzip  gt  stdin gz perhaps   Otherwise  you need to flesh out your question

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Yes  use gzip for this  The best way is to read data as input and redirect the compressed to output file i e   cat test csv   gzip  gt  test csv gz   cat test csv will send the data as stdout and using pipe-sign gzip will read that data as stdin  Make sure to redirect the gzip output to some file as compressed data will not be written to the terminal

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Yes  gzip will let you do this  If you simply run gzip  gt  foo gz  it will compress STDIN to the file foo gz  You can also pipe data into it  like some command   gzip  gt  foo gz

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