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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Oleh Krehel <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 09:56:55 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> >> +    ("\\.gz\\'" "" "gunzip")
> >>      ("\\.tgz\\'" ".tar" "gunzip")
> >>      ("\\.Z\\'" "" "uncompress")
> >
> > This makes ".tar.gz" and ".tgz" be treated differently.
> > Isn't that a little odd?
> > Also: .tar.bz2, .tar.xz, .tar, etc are not handled, only the gzip version.
> 
> This will be harder to fix, since I've only ever dealt with .tar.gz
> archives (and .zip sometimes). Could someone provide the relative
> extraction commands for .tar.bz2, .tar.xz, and .tar?

For .tar.bz2, uncompress with bunzip2 to get .tar, for .tar.xz,
uncompress with unxz to get .tar.  Is that what you wanted?