Re: Bug in gzip 1.4?

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello,

Wieman, Karl wrote:
> We can, of course, change our processes to exclude .gz files from
> processing but I think the original behavior was correct.  I would
> have prefferred that the fix to the previous bug was implemented as a
> separate flag rather than "enhancing" the already existing '-f'
> functionality.

FWIW, lzip 1.12-rc1[1] implements a new option to fix this.
[1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lzip-bug/2011-03/msg00003.html

"The option "-F, --recompress", which forces recompression of files 
whose name already has the ".lz" or ".tlz" suffix, has been added."


And the output of "lzip -h" is:

  -f, --force                overwrite existing output files
  -F, --recompress           force recompression of compressed files


Maybe it would be useful to implement an option like this in gzip also.


Best regards,
Antonio.