On 15/03/2014, Pavel Raiskup <prais...@redhat.com> wrote: > > No IMO, you may not pipe the product of extraction (files, directories > ..). I am not sure I understand your use case correctly. You basically > want convert Zip-standard archive to tar/pax? I am not aware of any > converter like this. Still, I don't see any risk of data corruption > (until your tools are not buggy and we accept that some attributes may be > lost) when you do this in two steps: > > * Firstly unzip the file into your USB disk and > * then archive the resulting files into tarball >
To clarify further, no, the requirement is not convert an archive format. The question was whether it is OK/safe/good protocol to: directory contents: textfile1 textfile2 archive.zip tar -cvf tarball.tar * In other words, the tarball contains an archive.
