[wp-testers] Nightly Builds/WinZip Replacement

tsykoduk tsykoduk at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 22:23:51 GMT 2006


I never said it was the best way :)

Also - on several of the boxes that I work on, we do not have gzcat
installed - zcat (same thing, I think).


On 1/12/06, Doug Stewart <dstewart at atl.lmco.com> wrote:
>
> tsykoduk wrote:
> > Or, simply
> >
> > gzip -d foo.tar.gz
> >
> > and then
> >
> > tar -cvf foo.tar
> >
> > Not the most elegant method - but I have never had it fail on any linux
> > box. My Macs automagically uncompress and untar the tarballs, so it's
> > super easy there.
> >
>
> The problem with that is that you're then left with an uncompressed .tar
> file sitting on your disk, taking up extra space.  The one step process
> (or, if you count using pipes as cheating, two step) process has the
> distinct advantage of leaving the .tar.gz file untouched and unexpanded.
>

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