Why require a zipped file?

[cbou]

It seems that a zipped file is required in order to anonymize the data.

Is correct?

Would it be possible to also accept pure sql files?

[mkoszut]

Yes, it is correct. It is historical reason, when I started write this tool I had database dumps in gzip format.

It is very easy to create gzipped file. On unix system you can use command gzip name.sql

[fbuchmeier]

I second the option to input plain text files. I wan to anonymise SQL dumps with 10GBs and more and un/zipping them takes quite some resources.