Re: [Bug-tar] How to specify the option for gzip used by tar?

[Tristan Miller]

Greetings.

On Wed, 6 Dec 2017 15:44:02 -0600, Peng Yu
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I am not sure how to use -l.

Not -l (lowercase L), but -I (uppercase i).  The argument to -I is the
compression program you want to use, along with its arguments.  So you
probably want something like -I="gzip -n".

Regards,
Tristan

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