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How to access a GZ file in Maven?

by Alvin S on 2017-08-24 22:31:26

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I installed the robotaxi module as part of my Maven dependencies but I'm unable to open the example plans and network files in Eclipse because they're in compressed format. Is there a way to access those files in a readable format?

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Re: How to access a GZ file in Maven?

by Marcel Rieser on 2017-08-25 07:33:03

Files ending on .gz are compressed with the gzip algorithm. Various compression software supports creating or at least extracting such files. If you don't have any tool around to do this, you can also use MATSim's GUI (Graphical User Interface).

Start the simple MATSim GUI, either by running the class org.matsim.run.gui.Gui, or—if you work with a MATSim release—by double clicking on the matsim.jar from the release. Once the GUI window is open, go to the "Tools" menu and select "Uncompress File…". Select your *.xml.gz-File, and save it without as *.xml, and the GUI will decompress it so you can access the file with a text editor, and also with Eclipse.

Please be aware that MATSim uses the gzip compression as typically such files can get pretty big with thousands of lines sometimes. Many text editors (including Eclipse) fail to load huge xml files, so it is only usable to look at the files in a text editor if your files are small.