I know what tar is, but I had no idea that vim would happily decompress for me. That's pretty cool (always nice to learn something unexpected). As soon as I through cat at it I found out that you're absolutely right (I suppose you already knew that). I've been working with Linux for a few years now - as an enthusiast, not a professional - and I've never seen a file gzipped outside of a tarball so I wasn't looking for it.
Anyway, after decompressing the file and piping it to a new file called trac-post-commit-hook, guess what? It worked. Flawlessly. Now, if you don't mind, I have a couple of other general questions: 1. Is there any convention/best practice that indicates where a post-commit hook script should be stored? It will work anywhere, I know, but is there a recommendation? 2. Since the post-commit-hook file that gets executed lives in the project's /hooks directory and must be named post-commit...I assume you can have multiple post-commit scripts executed just by calling all scripts from that same hook file. Is there any problem with that or is it done pretty regularly? Thanks again for all of your help. Without it, I would have probably just decided it wasn't worth the hassle. Now that I have it working, though...I'm not sure I could live without it. On 7/25/06, Emmanuel Blot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmmm. Didn't try file. I initially tried to list the contents > through "tar -ztvf", but it told me it wasn't a compressed file. tar is an archive tool, not a compression tool tar tzvf is equivalent to gunzip -c <file> | tar tvf - > Then, just for kicks, I tried opening it in vi and there it was - nice > and textual. I'll run "file" on it as soon as I get to the office and > let you know. vim is clever enough to uncompress a gzipped file on-the-fly: it will show you the gunzipped content of the file, this does not tell you whether the file is gzipped or not. use "cat" if you do not have "file"; cat does not gunzip, so if the file is actually gzipped, you should get some garbage as output. _______________________________________________ Trac mailing list [email protected] http://lists.edgewall.com/mailman/listinfo/trac
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