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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:45:51 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: |
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>> > Either way requires that you first determine the type of compression |
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>> > used before you can decide where to pipe tar's output, if at all. |
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>> > Whereas something like "tar xf somefile" avoids the need to do" file |
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>> > somefile" and parse the output first. |
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>> Pardon? "tar xf somefile" doesn't do any compression at all. |
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>> I don't get what you mean. |
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> No, but it does do whatever decompression is required. |
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Hey, that's a nice feature. I didn't know about that. |
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Alexander Skwar |
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