Re: [Lzip-bug] lzip --list

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Tino Lange wrote:
> I didn't know about the "lziprecover --list". I thought this is only for
> repairing corrupted archives and didn't check all options documented in
> the manpage in detail.

Funnily enough, lziprecover is the most capable decompressor for the 
lzip format. It is currently the only one featuring random access to the 
data in multimember files:

http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lziprecover_manual.html#Invoking-lziprecover

-D range
--range-decompress=range
    Decompress only a range of bytes starting at decompressed byte 
position 'begin' and up to byte position 'end - 1'. This option provides 
random access to the data in multimember files; it only decompresses the 
members containing the desired data. In order to guarantee the 
correctness of the data produced, all members containing any part of the 
desired data are decompressed and their integrity is verified.


> Well, that's fine for me, I can simply use "lziprecover --list" when I
> need the information. No need to double that code to lzip, if it makes
> portability problems.

Good, thanks. For the next version I'll either implement --list in lzip 
or document to use lziprecover instead.


Best regards,
Antonio.