Your message dated Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:34:19 -0700
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and subject line Re: Bug#916135: unable to gunzip a symlinked file: Too many
levels of symbolic links
has caused the Debian Bug report #916135,
regarding unable to gunzip a symlinked file: Too many levels of symbolic links
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916135: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=916135
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Package: gzip
Version: 1.9-2.1
Severity: normal
File: /bin/gunzip
$> rm -rf /tmp/testgz; mkdir /tmp/testgz; cd /tmp/testgz; echo 123 > 123; gzip
123; ln -s 123.gz linked.gz; ls -l; gunzip linked.gz
total 4
-rw------- 1 yoh yoh 28 Dec 10 10:47 123.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 yoh yoh 6 Dec 10 10:47 linked.gz -> 123.gz
gzip: skipping: linked.gz is a symbolic link
Expected result is to have 123.gz and linked files
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental'), (100,
'unstable-debug'), (100, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gzip depends on:
ii dpkg 1.19.0.5
ii install-info 6.5.0.dfsg.1-2
ii libc6 2.28-2
gzip recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gzip suggests:
ii less 487-0.1
-- debconf-show failed
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Yaroslav Halchenko <[email protected]> writes:
> Expected result is to have 123.gz and linked files
The -f option is documented to handle cases where the compressed file
has multiple links, and indeed, using it results in the behavior you
seem to want.
Closing this bug with no further action taken.
Bdale
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