[Tutor] Reading large bz2 Files

[Lie Ryan]

On 02/20/10 07:49, Norman Rieß wrote:
> Am 19.02.2010 21:42, schrieb Lie Ryan:
>> On 02/19/10 23:42, Norman Rieß wrote:
>>   
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> i am trying to read a large bz2 file with this code:
>>>
>>> source_file = bz2.BZ2File(file, "r")
>>> for line in source_file:
>>>     print line.strip()
>>>
>>> But after 4311 lines, it stoppes without a errormessage. The bz2 file is
>>> much bigger though.
>>> How can i read the whole file line by line?
>>>     
>> Is the bz2 file an archive[1]?
>>
>> [1] archive: contains more than one file
>>   
> 
> No it is a single file. But how could i check for sure? Its extracts to
> a single file...

use "bzip2 -dc" or "bunzip2" instead of "bzcat" since bzcat concatenates
its output file to a single file.