On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 17:24:11 +0800, Afriza N. Arief wrote: > $ tar -czf tarball.tgz folder # failed silently (instantly returns) > $ tar -cf tarball.tar folder # succeed > $ gzip tarball.tar # succeed > $ tar -xzf tarball.tar.gz # failed with tar: Child died with signal 11 > $ unzip tarball.tar.gz # succeed > $ tar -xf tarball.tar # succeed > > How does tar finds the gzip/gunzip/zcat binary to be used?
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