On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:45:51 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Either way requires that you first determine the type of compression > > used before you can decide where to pipe tar's output, if at all. > > Whereas something like "tar xf somefile" avoids the need to do" file > > somefile" and parse the output first. > > Pardon? "tar xf somefile" doesn't do any compression at all. > I don't get what you mean.
No, but it does do whatever decompression is required. Of course, you do have to specify a compression method when creating a compressed archive. -- Neil Bothwick If only the good die young then what does that say about senior citizens?
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