[Bug-tar] Re: Fwd: bug in GnuTar

[Vitaly V. Ch]

I upgrade my tar and it solve problem. Also I found out new tar more
faster. Thanks.

\\wbr Vitaly Chernookiy

On Nov 23, 2007 5:29 AM, Nathan Stratton Treadway <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:55:40PM +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > Vitaly V. Ch <address@hidden> ha escrit:
> >
> > > On some machines run under slackware 10.2 next test always fail:
> > >
> > >  for ((i=0;i<1000;i++)); do echo $i >$i; tar cz $i >>file.tgz; done;
> > > gzip -t -v file.tgz
> >
> > It should have failed. You cannot glue together two compressed files and
> > expect the result to be a valid compressed file.
>
> I haven't ever used it myself, but my gzip man page says:
>
>     ADVANCED USAGE
>        Multiple compressed files can be concatenated.  In  this case,  gunzip
>        will extract all members at once. For example:
>
>              gzip -c file1  > foo.gz
>              gzip -c file2 >> foo.gz
>
>        Then
>
>              gunzip -c foo
>
>        is equivalent to
>
>              cat file1 file2
>
>
> (This is the man page included in the Debian gzip package, version
> 1.3.5-10sarge2.)
>
>
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