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bug #56951: [Feature request] Please add a short command line option for lzip invocation

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Wed 25 Sep 2019 05:52:43 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Wont Fix
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  gray
Open/Closed:  Closed
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Thu 26 Sep 2019 05:45:19 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Thanks for your fast reply!

Anonymous
Wed 25 Sep 2019 07:10:33 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Irrespective of merits and drawbacks of any particular compression format, there are no more short options to be used for that purpose.

Sergey Poznyakoff <gray>
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Wed 25 Sep 2019 05:52:43 PM UTC, original submission:  

This one's probably a trivial one (most probably more a political decision): Did you reflect about adding a short command line option for lzip invocation?

Apparently, xz is a quite bad format, though it's gaining attention and it's widely used (cf. http://lzip.nongnu.org/xz_inadequate.html ).

The fact that xz is usable via "tar -cJvf ..." like "tar -czvf ..." for gzip suggests that it's the "next" or "better" compression in the order "gzip", "bzip2", "xz".

As lzip does the same compression, but with an apparently distictly more reasonable format, it would possibly not be a bad idea to promote it's usage.

Having to invoke it by using "tar -cvf ... --lzip" makes it look a bit "exotic".

What do you think?

Anonymous

 

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