Well, how about this, then? (I’ve taken the opportunity to add in some quotation marks to make the script just slightly more robust!)
#!/bin/sh FILE="$(tempfile)" echo Hello world >"$FILE" gzip --to-stdout "$FILE" >"$FILE.gz" tar --create --gzip --directory="$(dirname "$FILE")" "$(basename "$FILE")" \ >"$FILE.tar.gz" file-roller --extract-here "$FILE.gz" & file-roller --extract-here "$FILE.tar.gz" & ** Attachment added: "Shell script to create .gz and .tar.gz archives, and try to extract them with file-roller" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16072844/file-roller-.gz%26.tar.gz-test.sh -- file-roller cannot decompress non-archive .gz https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248683 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs