Ah, my silly mistake With that in mind, to my second point-- I don't know what the full implications would be, but if it makes sense, a failure or err message would have caught my mistake. Just a thought
Thanks for the response! ________________________________ From: Michał Górny <mgorny_at_gentoo.org_xa...@duck.com> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 11:57 PM To: xa...@duck.com <xa...@duck.com>; bug-tar_at_gnu.org_xa...@duck.com <bug-tar_at_gnu.org_xa...@duck.com> Subject: Re: Auto compress zstd does not compress On Sat, 2022-09-17 at 00:10 -0400, xa...@duck.com wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to use the -a / --auto-compress flag for tar.zstd archives and it > seems to work at first, but the file seems to just be uncompressed tar. As a > result, file-roller fails to open it. Using tar 1.34 > > As a side note, this seems to be the behavior anytime auto compress doesn't > detect the compression. Is this desired behavior, or would it make sense to > throw an error or send a warning to stderr? > The suffix for zstd compressed archives is .tar.zst (without "d"). -- Best regards, Michał Górny
