[oclug] "tar" problem

[Dave Edwards]

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 16:52, Joe Burpee wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 at 16:28:29 -0400, Dave Edwards wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 15:32, Joe Burpee wrote:
> > > On RedHat you can get a contents listing by typing
> > > 	less <tarballname>
> > > 
> > > This works because $LESSOPEN points to /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh, which
> > > handles .tgz, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .zip, .Z, etc.
> > > 
> > Thanks, Joe.  That is useful.  When I tried it, it just less'd the tar
> > archive to the console.  So I looked at /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh , and found
> > the problem, which might exist only in MDK-8.1.  In any case, the line
> >   gzip*)               CMD='gzip -d -c -q';;
> > needs to be commented out, as (in the context of the rest of the script)
> > it affects both gzipped ordinary files /and/ gzipped tarballs. 
> 
> RedHat just uses a single `case' statement to filter suffixes.  Not very
> fancy.  That doesn't look like a suffix, so Mandrake is apparently
> trying to do something else.  Anyway, I'm glad to hear you got it
> working.

MDK-8.1 tries first with: 
TYPE=`file -L $1 | cut -d' ' -f2-`
...
case $TYPE in
#  gzip*)               CMD='gzip -d -c -q';;
...


Dave.
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