[compression_utils] Document existence of atool
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The lz.sh script emulates and extends commands lz and uz from the
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The lz.sh script emulates and extends commands lz and uz from the
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mtools.
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mtools.
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It handles: tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar.xz, tar.lzma and tar.Z (and
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NOTE: although more powerful than their mtools equivalent, you should
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associated 3-characters extensions: tgz, tbz, tb2, tlz, txz, taz)
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probably use als and aunpack from the atool package rather than these
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through the standards options of GNU Tar.
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commands; they are much better and there are several other useful
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commands provided by atool. This script is still useful when you can't
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install Perl (atool ist written in Perl).
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This script handles the following archive formats through the standards
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options of GNU Tar:
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- tar
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- tar.gz (tgz)
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- tar.bz2 (tbz, tb2)
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- tar.xz (txz)
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- tar.lzma (tlz)
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- tar.Z (taz)
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Note that you need GNU Tar, at least version 1.20 to support LZMA
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Note that you need GNU Tar, at least version 1.20 to support LZMA
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compressed archives, and version 1.22 for XZ compressed ones.
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compressed archives, and version 1.22 for XZ compressed ones.
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case of compression (i.e. when the suffix of the file does not
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case of compression (i.e. when the suffix of the file does not
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correspond to a known compression format), the original uncompressed
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correspond to a known compression format), the original uncompressed
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file is removed.
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file is removed.
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NOTE: the atool package provides the arepack command, which can
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recompress to several formats and not only to xz. xzize has the
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advantage to recompress on the fly rather than unpacking the archive
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entirely on the file system and repacking it after.
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