12 Dec
2011
12 Dec
'11
5:35 p.m.
On 12 December 2011 22:43, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
*Shudder*
Your acceptable peculiarity is my hated misfeature.
There are
certain commands I've come across that handles extentions
poorly. ?Like gunzip:
[spc]lucy:/tmp>mv x-grey.tar.gz
x-grey.tar.foo
[spc]lucy:/tmp>gunzip x-grey.tar.foo
gunzip: x-grey.tar.foo: unknown suffix -- ignored
[spc]lucy:/tmp>
Yes. ?Annoying, but understandable - without the .gz on there, how is
it to know what file to put the result in? ?Of course, we could get
into the upsides and downsides of filesystem version numbers, but
that's a separate bikeshed. ?(Workaround, moderately specific to gzip,
and good for only a single file: gunzip < x-grey.tar.foo > whatever)
True. Or, as I usually do these days, use File-roller. :?)
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