Re: tarlz : can't understand option "--output=<file>"

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hi Fractal,

101@mailu.io wrote:
> I was trying to compress a folder using tarlz.

I guess you mean you were trying to archive a folder with '-c'. (Tarlz has 
an option named '--compress').

> I used the option '--output=path/to/some/file'
> But it seemed like I was getting garbage output in my terminal.

This is because option -f was absent and the archive was being written to 
standard output (the terminal).

> I assumed that is the option for output file .i.e the archive.

Yes, but only when compressing an existing POSIX tar archive with '-z'. 
Maybe I should make '-o, --output' a synonym for '-f, --file' when creating 
an archive.

> Anyway '--file=<archive>' seems to do the work that I was trying to do.
> But then, '--output=<file>' is not clear to me. What does it do?

http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/tarlz_manual.html#Invoking-tarlz
-o file
--output=file
    Write the compressed output to file. '-o -' writes the compressed 
output to standard output. Currently '--output' only works with '--compress'.


Best regards,
Antonio.