prorest and gzip

[whwar9739]

Does anyone know of an easy way to pipe output from a gunzip to the prorest command?
Essentially I am trying to conserve space on the system by gzipping the backup, I was hoping that there would be an easy way to send the output to the prorest command, rather than unzipping the file then running the prorest command. Any help would be great.

 

[TomBascom]

Using a "named pipe" should work fine. Look up mkfifo.

 

[rstanciu]

mknod sports2000_backup_pipe p
gzip --best <sports2000_backup_pipe >sports2000.bkup.gz &
                probkup online sports2000 sports2000_backup_pipe -com

gunzip <sports2000.bkup.gz >sports2000_backup_pipe &
               prorest sports2000 sports2000_backup_pipe