Re: [Lzip-bug] Is lzip able to save file name or time stams of compressed file?

[wrotycz]

Ok, I get it now. Just checked how it works and you copy timestamps to the archive and restore it this way during decompression.

Dnia 26 czerwca 2017 23:51 Antonio Diaz Diaz <address@hidden> napisał(a):

wrotycz wrote:

IMHO as an archiver it should be able to "recreate original"

file with original name, time stamps and probably permissions

Lzip is a compressor, not an archiver. But on posix systems you should

not have any problem. Lzip restores the original name, the access and

modification dates, permissions, and, when possible, ownership of the

file just as "cp -p" does. See

http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Introduction

Without built in mechanism I can see only one way - with tar:

$ tar c file.name | lzip - > file.name.tar.lz

which isn't the most elegant as I create "double" archive but that's

the only way I can see.

This is how it is done on systems where the above doesn't work; first

archive with tar, then compress with lzip. See

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/gzip.html

Best regards,

Antonio.