Scott Moser <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm using gnu tar 1.28 as packaged on Ubuntu (xenial) and also tried 1.27 > on 15.10. Please forgive me if this feature is already added upstream. > > Tar's determination of compression is very handy:
> > My issue is that it only works if input is from a file. The following do > not work: > $ wget http://example.com/some.tar.gz | tar -tf - > $ tar -tf - < my.tar.gz > tar: Archive is compressed. Use -z option > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Did you try "star"? Star implementes this feature since 15 years and gtar's current auto-decompression features appeared after star offered the feature. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/'
