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Alexander Skwar schrieb: |
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> Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de> wrote: |
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>> Alexander Skwar schrieb: |
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>>> Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de> wrote: |
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>>>> star supports p7zip which can be much better and especially more |
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>>>> flexible than bzip2, gzip and zip. |
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>>> Uhm, what's bad about |
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>>> tar cf - | p7zip .... |
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>> It's a bit cumbersome to create a pipe each time I access an archive. |
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> Okay. I don't think so. |
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I don't want to flame but does that mean that you are one of the guys |
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that always use the menu button when there's a hotkey available? |
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Yet, I agree with you in that it's not a good excuse for breaking POSIX |
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compliance, one more thing that can break. A bundle of scripts would be |
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better to wrap tar and *zip. |
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>>>> I used find and grep to search for any implementations of tar |
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>>>> compressing to stdout - I couldn't find any. |
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>>> What do you mean? |
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>> Just that I used regular expressions to search for tar writing to |
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>> stdout, something that star can't, apparently. |
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> star can write to stdout. "./star -c -f - . > ../s" |
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Ehhm, yes, it can. Sorry for that mistake. I really meant this behavior: |
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"Turns out that star can't do "star xzf -", it will say "Can only |
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compress files." (from Volker's first post). |
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>> It seems it didn't work. |
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> What is "it"? |
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Using find, grep and regular expressions to search for a case which |
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could trigger that misbehavior of star in order to find out whether I |
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can safely replace tar with star. |
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>> Not all but some emerge actions failed while using star. |
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> No wonder. Command line options aren't compatible. And hell |
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> will freeze before Mr. Schilling will change. |
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I'm a bit puzzled. You wrote gnu tar is not POSIX compliant and now it's |
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star's fault that it doesn't work without modifying scripts? |
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>>>> I'll move /bin/tar to /bin/gnutar and make a symlink from /usr/bin/star |
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>>>> to /bin/tar. |
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>>>> Let's see if it works. |
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>>> Command line options aren't identical. I wouldn't wonder if you run |
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>>> into problems. |
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>> Well, most are. |
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> Not really. For GNU tar, "tar cf - . > ../s" would work. Not so |
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> for star. |
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> Alexander Skwar |
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