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Re: .tar.gz
In article <199707280923.TAA12004@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU>,
Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
>>If you are not using GNU tar then you may have to unzip the file
>>before untarring
>>
>> gunzip -c file.tar.gz | tar xf -
>
>Last time I checked (version b17.1), this did not work,
>because pipes were opened in text mode, not binary mode.
>Instead I had to use
>
> gunzip file.tar.gz
> tar xf - file.tar
>
>Has this changed since b17.1?
I don't think so. But using the 'z' option to gnutar works as it
always has:
tar xzf file.tar.gz
There has been at least one copy of bash floating around which was
compiled with O_BINARY as the default for open. That would allow the pipe
version above to work.
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