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Re: dired-do-compress does not *uncompress* .tgz or .tar.gz files
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H. Dieter Wilhelm |
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Re: dired-do-compress does not *uncompress* .tgz or .tar.gz files |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Sep 2014 07:33:12 +0200 |
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Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
> dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes:
>
>> am I missing something? When pressing Z in dired on a X.tgz file
>> dired-do-compress does not uncompress the file instead it compresses it
>> to an X.tar file even though the function advertises also to uncompress
>> files.
> X.tgz (or X.tar.gz) is a compressed X.tar, so dired-do-compress is
> behaving as advertised.
Sorry for my blindness, this was not my day, you're right!
> What do you want is uncompress&untar. I don't know if dired supports
> this.
Especially because I don't have any use of raw tar files. It would be
nice if in dired .tgz files would be untarred and uncompressd on the fly
by default.
Thanks
Dieter
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Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany