Hi. I know it's documented (see my report). I think that a change in the behavior would help pipelines a lot and make the behavior more consistent. IMHO.
Il mer 9 ott 2024, 16:00 Sergey Poznyakoff <g...@gnu.org.ua> ha scritto: > Hi Vincenzo, > > That's a normal and documented behavior. Quoting GNU Tar Manual, > subsection 8.1.1 "Creating and Reading Compressed Archives": > > The only case when you have to specify a decompression option while > reading the archive is when reading from a pipe or from a tape drive > that does not support random access. However, in this case GNU 'tar' > will indicate which option you should use. For example: > > $ cat archive.tar.gz | tar tf - > tar: Archive is compressed. Use -z option > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > Regards, > Sergey > > >
