Nicholas Marriott <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
bsdtar and gtar detect compressed archives automatically and transparently invoke the corresponding decompressor. $ bsdtar tf foo.tar.xz foo/ foo/bla ... However, they can't automatically devine the desired type of compression when creating an archive... Actually, gtar can: If given the -a flag, it will deduce the compressor to choose from the archive name, e.g. $ gtar caf foo.tar.bz2 foo will call bzip2. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
