Hello,
I was facing a problem in some Makefile/shell-scripting and finally I
could nail it down:
when you set the environment variable GZIP to something, for example to
let it point to gzip itself, it tries 1st to unpack this file:
$ GZIP=/usr/bin/gzip export GZIP
$ $GZIP -dc source.tar.gz | wc -l
gzip: /usr/bin/gzip: not in gzip format
645770
o
$ GZIP=bla export GZIP
$ gzip -dc source.tar.gz | wc -l
gzip: can't stat: bla: No such file or directory
645770
Why is this? It's not mentioned in the man page.
Thanks
matthias
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