On 10/09/2009 12:45 PM, Ashok Gautham wrote:
> Oh well. I did not know that :)
> But I feel that this is not a feature. It is more like featuritis. Shouldn't
> each tool be independant of another. I might use my own gunzip
> implementation. :(
Yes, you can. Before ranting, read up on how it is im
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Rahul Sundaram
wrote:
> Well, in the past few years, you don't really have to specify x or j or
> anything like that. Tar automatically detects whether you are extracting
> a gzip, bzip2 or xz compressed archive and call the appropriate tool
> automatically. All yo
On 10/08/2009 09:18 PM, Ashok Gautham wrote:
> I am a relatively modern linux user (circa 2002) and I use
> tar -xzvf *.tar.gz or tar -xjvf *.tar.bz2
>
> I do not think the fact that tar did not have a x or j flag back then
> hurt.
Well, in the past few years, you don't really have to specify x
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Girish Venkatachalam
wrote:
> Of course I await the day when tar(BSD and GNU) embraces this great
> technology.
>
Does it have to? A few people I know over IRC still do a
gunzip foo.tar.gz | tar -xvf or
bunzip2 foo.tar.bz2 | tar -xvf
I am a relatively modern linux
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Girish Venkatachalam
wrote:
> $ 7z a foo.izo
>
> creates a foo.7z which in my case is mostly 6 times smaller or roughly
> 600% efficient.
>
> $ 7z e foo.7z
>
> decompresses it.
I forgot to mention that you can see for yourself how great it is:
My raw ISO image is
