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Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:27:38 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: James Cloos <cloos@...loos.com> CC: Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7 On 02/07/2010 11:10 AM, James Cloos wrote: >>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com> writes: > > Mark> I just wish the GNU tar folk had the sense to combine -z and -j > Mark> into a single flag. > > Try the -a flag: > > -a, --auto-compress use archive suffix to determine the compression program > > (Which does seem to be on by default, now, as mentioned in the other reply.) > For decompression it should use magic numbers, not filenames. For compression, using filenames as a heuristic I guess makes sense. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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