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lzip: Can't create output file (Users)

posted by fritz.mueller , Munich, Germany, 04.01.2024, 23:29

> > > > Still not sure what I do wrong. Sorry for so many pictures, but I
> hope
> > > it
> > > > clears what I am talking about.
> > >
> > > I can confirm this behavior on my system for my lzip 1.9 and lzip 1.20
> > > ports.
> > >
> > > -o or --output=file only works when reading
> > from
> > > stdin, as the help screen says.
> > >
> > > When reading from a file, lzip always takes the input file name and
> > appends
> > > .lz.
> >
> > Wait! It's not completely unusable.
> > The solution is already noted above:
> >
> > Compress: lzip -k -o example < example.exe
> > -> This will create example.lz.
> >
> > Decompress: lzip -k -d -o example2.exe < example.lz
> >
> > Note the redirection operators <.
>
> Ok, thanks for this information, I will modify the help file, but how do
> you know a year later that this file was an exe file and not a gif?
> Especially if you have a gif and a pdf and an exe file with the same name
> in the same folder as it is, eg, in vim?
The only way to handle it is to create tar.lz?

Complete thread:

• lzip: Can't create output file - fritz.mueller, 03.01.2024, 20:16 (Users)
  • lzip: Can't create output file - rr, 03.01.2024, 22:54
  • lzip: Can't create output file - fritz.mueller, 04.01.2024, 13:53
    • lzip: Can't create output file - tom, 04.01.2024, 16:10
    • lzip: Can't create output file - rr, 04.01.2024, 20:07
      • lzip: Can't create output file - rr, 04.01.2024, 20:14
      • lzip: Can't create output file - rr, 04.01.2024, 23:10
        • lzip: Can't create output file - fritz.mueller, 04.01.2024, 23:23
          • lzip: Can't create output file - fritz.mueller, 04.01.2024, 23:29
            • lzip: Can't create output file - rr, 07.01.2024, 17:17
              • lzip: Can't create output file - fritz.mueller, 07.01.2024, 18:09
          • lzip: Can't create output file - rr, 07.01.2024, 17:12