Re: option `-o' for regular file

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> > PS. In my opinion `-o' option appends '.lz' excessively (during
> > compression, decompression is fine).
>
> This is because of the original use of -o in lzip; providing a virtual
> name for the uncompressed file when reading from standard input.
>
> I may change it now to behave more like -o in other programs, but lzip
> will still need to change the name when compressing and splitting the
> output in volumes.

I'm afraid I can't change it yet because zupdate (from zutils) depends on 
lzip appending a '.lz' extension to the argument of -o. Redirection can be 
used to write the compressed output to an arbitrary file:
  'lzip -c file > foo'.


Best regards,
Antonio.