Re: [Bug-tar] compressed archives within tar files

[e-letter]

On 15/03/2014, Pavel Raiskup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> No IMO, you may not pipe the product of extraction (files, directories
> ..).  I am not sure I understand your use case correctly.  You basically
> want convert Zip-standard archive to tar/pax?  I am not aware of any
> converter like this.  Still, I don't see any risk of data corruption
> (until your tools are not buggy and we accept that some attributes may be
> lost) when you do this in two steps:
>
>   * Firstly unzip the file into your USB disk and
>   * then archive the resulting files into tarball
>

To clarify further, no, the requirement is not convert an archive
format. The question was whether it is OK/safe/good protocol to:

directory contents:
textfile1
textfile2
archive.zip

tar -cvf tarball.tar *

In other words, the tarball contains an archive.