Right that was sort of how I was thinking, although I'm not sure it'd be easy to do.
And from the look of it they also have -J, but .xz is so rarely used right now I'm not sure it is something we really need to copy... On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 04:59:36PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Nicholas Marriott > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree. > > > > Or if we must have compression flags just have one flag and let tar > > figure out the right tool to use. Having -Z -z -J -j etc etc is silly. > > GNU tar no longer needs those flags... their "tar xf foo" works just > fine whether foo is .tar, .tar.gz, or .tar.bz2. > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 11:41:39PM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 09:43:53PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > >> > > > this diff adds a -J flag to tar that calls xz for > >> > > > compress/decompress. > >> > > > Requires you to install the xz package on your system. > >> > > > >> > > No way. > >> > > > >> > > Base never depends on external things. > >> > > >> > Well pval added support for bzip2 years ago in a similar way... > >> > >> And i don't see the point in all those special flags for special > >> (de)compression tools, not even for gzip. > >> > >> gzip -cd bla.tgz | tar tf - > >> > >> Same for other tools. Why add flags to tar for this?
