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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: master 6d6bf46 2/2: Make dired-do-compress work for *.tar.gz files |
Date: | Fri, 16 Oct 2015 08:35:13 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> gzip -dc example.tar.gz | tar -xYes (except that you could use gunzip.)
I suggest sticking with "gzip -d" rather than relying on "gunzip", as some installations install gzip without also installing gunzip, and this has bitten users of other GNU programs. See, for example:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2009-10/msg00002.html
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