pigz -l doesn’t do that, but pigz -lt does. Since -t has to decode the whole file, -l combined with it will use that information to give the correct result. For compatibility, pigz -l still does what gzip does, which is to guess based on what it finds at the end of the file.
> On Aug 9, 2021, at 1:37 AM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > > On 8/9/21 1:02 AM, Stephen Kitt wrote: >> Is there any chance >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2018-12/msg00010.html could be >> considered? > > Better than that, why not just have 'gzip -l' print the correct number, by > decompressing the whole file and discarding its bytes? That's what pigz does. > > >
