Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:25:04 +0200 | From | Petri Kaukasoina <> | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion |
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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:40:47AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 04:31:59PM -0500, James Cloos wrote: > > >>>>> "W" == Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> writes: > > > > W> Well, I personally like to be able to simply run "less patch-2.6.27.45.gz" > > W> and have it transparently uncompressed and dumped on my terminal. It > > W> doesn't do that on bz2. We could find multiple examples. > > > > It does here, and lzma & xz, too. And has since just days after Lasse > > annouced that the new name would be xz. > > > > Your LESSOPEN controls that, and can be easily coded to support any archive. > > Just checked and I found it funny to see that patch-2.6.1.bz2 is not > correctly opened while 2.6.27.45.bz2 is.
There is a bug in lesspipe.sh, at least here. It confuses it with compresses man pages.
--- lesspipe.sh~ 2009-11-06 02:14:58.000000000 +0200 +++ lesspipe.sh 2010-02-17 12:19:09.000000000 +0200 @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
*.1.bz2|*.2.bz2|*.3.bz2|*.4.bz2|*.5.bz2|*.6.bz2|*.7.bz2|*.8.bz2|*.9.bz2|*.n.bz2|*.man.bz2) # compressed *roff src? if bzip2 -dc "$1" | file - | grep roff 1> /dev/null ; then bzip2 -dc "$1" | nroff -S -mandoc - + else bzip2 -dc "$1" 2>/dev/null fi ;; *.gz) gzip -dc "$1" 2>/dev/null ;; *.bz2) bzip2 -dc "$1" 2>/dev/null ;;
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