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From: | Rodrigo Campos |
Subject: | bug#50097: gzip: add "--keep" option to keep original files unchanged |
Date: | Thu, 19 Aug 2021 17:28:51 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.12.0 |
On 8/19/21 3:50 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
Rodrigo Campos wrote:{ >>a && ln a b && gzip -k b }Exactly, the original file is unaffected, therefore nothing to fix in this specific patch. Note the same happens without "-k" too.I think the point of Krzysztof is that the patch is incomplete because,
Oh, thanks for chiming in :)
in addition to keep the original file, it should also allow the (de)compression of links without forcing the user to type also '-f' for no apparent reason.
It is not the -k flag that disallows this.
$ touch a && ln a b && ls -go * -rw-r--r-- 2 0 Aug 19 15:29 a -rw-r--r-- 2 0 Aug 19 15:29 b $ gzip -k b gzip: b has 1 other link -- unchanged
Yeap, but the same happens if you run this instead: gzip b (i.e. without -k).
It is not the -k flag that gets in the way. This is what happens in gzip, even without using the flag.
Am I missing something?
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