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