Re: [Bug-tar] --auto-compress command line option

[Helmut Waitzmann]

Helmut Waitzmann <address@hidden> writes:

>To make a long story short:
>
>If you want GNU tar to always use some special compress programs, you may
>put them in a directory of their own and then name the path of that
>directory as the first component of the PATH environment variable:
>
>If you want to do that as the system administrator, change the "export
>PATH=..." command in the file "/etc/profile", for example:
>
>export PATH=/site/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
>
>If you want to do that as an ordinary user, you may put the command
>
>export \
>PATH=/site/local/bin:"${PATH:-/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin}"
>
>into the file "$HOME"/.profile.

If you don't want GNU tar to always use some special versions but only in
certain cases, rather than writing the "export PATH" command in a startup
file, just do it when invocating tar:

PATH=/site/local/bin:"${PATH:-/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin}" \
tar ...

Kind regards,

Helmut
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