Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Skwar schrieb: >> Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> star supports p7zip which can be much better and especially more >>> flexible than bzip2, gzip and zip. >> >> Uhm, what's bad about >> >> tar cf - | p7zip .... > > It's a bit cumbersome to create a pipe each time I access an archive.
Okay. I don't think so. >>> I used find and grep to search for any implementations of tar >>> compressing to stdout - I couldn't find any. >> >> What do you mean? >> > Just that I used regular expressions to search for tar writing to > stdout, something that star can't, apparently. star can write to stdout. "./star -c -f - . > ../s" > It seems it didn't work. What is "it"? > Not all but some emerge actions failed while using star. No wonder. Command line options aren't compatible. And hell will freeze before Mr. Schilling will change. >>> I'll move /bin/tar to /bin/gnutar and make a symlink from /usr/bin/star >>> to /bin/tar. >>> >>> Let's see if it works. >> >> Command line options aren't identical. I wouldn't wonder if you run >> into problems. >> > Well, most are. Not really. For GNU tar, "tar cf - . > ../s" would work. Not so for star. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
