On 08/25/2011 11:21 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
I don't think it's stupid.
$ gzip foo.c
$ mv foo.c.gz foo.bin
$ gzip -d foo.bin
gzip: foo.bin: unknown suffix -- ignored
$ gzip -dc foo.bin
hello, world
just because gzip is as stupid doesn't make xz any less.
Is there some reason "xz -dc" does not work for you?
obviously i do not want to decompress to stdout (nor to redirect into a
file), i just want to decompress.
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