From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired-do-compress does not *uncompress* .tgz or .tar.gz files
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 07:33:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761h2skbr.fsf@vsl28t2g.ww011> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87tx4n6xm2.fsf@wanadoo.es
Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
> dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes:
>
>> am I missing something? When pressing Z in dired on a X.tgz file
>> dired-do-compress does not uncompress the file instead it compresses it
>> to an X.tar file even though the function advertises also to uncompress
>> files.
> X.tgz (or X.tar.gz) is a compressed X.tar, so dired-do-compress is
> behaving as advertised.
Sorry for my blindness, this was not my day, you're right!
> What do you want is uncompress&untar. I don't know if dired supports
> this.
Especially because I don't have any use of raw tar files. It would be
nice if in dired .tgz files would be untarred and uncompressd on the fly
by default.
Thanks
Dieter
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-05 5:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-04 15:13 dired-do-compress does not *uncompress* .tgz or .tar.gz files H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-09-04 18:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-09-05 5:33 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
2014-09-04 20:20 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-09-04 20:38 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-04 20:47 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-09-04 21:00 ` Drew Adams
[not found] <mailman.8267.1409853627.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-04 19:47 ` Stefan Monnier
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