Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:27:38 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7 |
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On 02/07/2010 11:10 AM, James Cloos wrote: >>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com> writes: > > Mark> I just wish the GNU tar folk had the sense to combine -z and -j > Mark> into a single flag. > > Try the -a flag: > > -a, --auto-compress use archive suffix to determine the compression program > > (Which does seem to be on by default, now, as mentioned in the other reply.) >
For decompression it should use magic numbers, not filenames. For compression, using filenames as a heuristic I guess makes sense.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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