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Re: [Bug-tar] Difference between -z option and piping to gzip
From: |
Jim Hefferon |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] Difference between -z option and piping to gzip |
Date: |
Sat, 3 Jan 2004 13:47:36 GMT |
Sergey,
You said:
To solve the problem you have to pass the same option to the
gzip instance invoked by tar. You can do so by declaring GZIP
environment variable:
export GZIP=-n
tar cfz arch1 testfile &&
sleep 90 &&
tar cfz arch2 testfile &&
diff arch1 arch2; echo $?
Try this and you'll get two identical archives.
Thanks for your reply; I'll look into that. (Presumably I can figure
out how to compile gzip for the ftp/bin directory with -n hardcoded.)
Thanks also for your work on GNU tar. We rely on it every day.
Jim