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| From: | Joerg Schilling |
| Subject: | Re: [Bug-tar] feature request: determine compression type from stdin |
| Date: | Thu, 29 Oct 2015 11:02:24 +0100 |
| User-agent: | Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 |
Scott Moser <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm using gnu tar 1.28 as packaged on Ubuntu (xenial) and also tried 1.27
> on 15.10. Please forgive me if this feature is already added upstream.
>
> Tar's determination of compression is very handy:
>
> My issue is that it only works if input is from a file. The following do
> not work:
> $ wget http://example.com/some.tar.gz | tar -tf -
> $ tar -tf - < my.tar.gz
> tar: Archive is compressed. Use -z option
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Did you try "star"? Star implementes this feature since 15 years and gtar's
current auto-decompression features appeared after star offered the feature.
Jörg
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