Re: tar --create --auto-compress should warn on unrecognized suffix

Hi Philip, Thanks for your report. I have installed the following fix: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=b4d1fa77b69d4b7a63db9c458a808d058b71bd30 Best regards, Sergey

tar --create --auto-compress should warn on unrecognized suffix

I'm using GNU tar 1.30 from an RHEL-derived distro, which doesn't know about --zstd. This is not a bug, however when I try to create archive.tar.zst there is no clue that it didn't work. tar 1.30 silently creates uncompressed output. Specifically, if the newly created filename is unknown to su