severity 639239 wishlist quit Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 08/25/2011 11:21 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> 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. It was not obvious to me. Depending on your preferred name for the decompressed file, you have at least two choices: - use -S.bin to use .bin as the suffix to strip, instead of .xz - implement a --output=<path> option and send a patch to xz-de...@tukaani.org (subscription required[1]). The patch description can explain why "xz -dc infile >outfile" is not good enough and how it works in the case infile=outfile. Hope that helps, though I'm not sure what I'm adding here that the man page does not provide. I'm glad to hear you're finding xz useful to at least decompress a file or two. :) Cheers, Jonathan [1] http://tukaani.org/xz/lists.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
