Re: master 6d6bf46 2/2: Make dired-do-compress work for *.tar.gz files

[Oleh Krehel]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:48:11 -0400
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> Personally I'd just go with:
>> 
>>   uncompress-prog | tar
>
> (You mean "compress-prog", I think.  This is about compressing.)
>
> I agree.
>
>> and simply assume that "uncompress-prog" is present (like the command
>> does now, I guess).
>
> Yes, and it's not a separate assumption: Tar runs that program as well
> to uncompress the tarball, so if that program is missing, "tar -caf"
> won't work as well.

OK, is this what you want for compression:

    tar -c example/ | gzip -c9 > example.tar.gz

And this for decompression:

    gzip -dc example.tar.gz | tar -x

I think it would be productive if everyone just wrote down the explicit
shell command they want with all the relevant switches.