Re: [Lzip-bug] Is lzip able to save file name or time stams of compressed file?

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

wrotycz wrote:
> IMHO as an archiver it should be able to "recreate original"
> file with original name, time stamps and probably permissions

Lzip is a compressor, not an archiver. But on posix systems you should 
not have any problem. Lzip restores the original name, the access and 
modification dates, permissions, and, when possible, ownership of the 
file just as "cp -p" does. See
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Introduction


> Without built in mechanism I can see only one way - with tar:
> $ tar c file.name | lzip - > file.name.tar.lz
> which isn't the most elegant as I create "double" archive but that's
> the only way I can see.

This is how it is done on systems where the above doesn't work; first 
archive with tar, then compress with lzip. See
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/gzip.html


Best regards,
Antonio.