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feature request: set option -t if argv[0] == 'pxz' #79

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jowagner opened this issue Apr 20, 2018 · 2 comments
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feature request: set option -t if argv[0] == 'pxz' #79

jowagner opened this issue Apr 20, 2018 · 2 comments

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@jowagner
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jowagner commented Apr 20, 2018

As indicative from issue #65 people may be surprised that pixz can modify the payload. I understand your reasons for not wanting to make '-t' the default.

A simple solution is to have the installer to create a symlink pxz --> pixz, to check argv[0] in the code, set '-t' if the name is 'pxz' and to add a synopsis and description line in the man page.

@jowagner jowagner changed the title feature request: set option -t if argv[0] == 'pxz' as default feature request: set option -t if argv[0] == 'pxz' Apr 20, 2018
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vasi commented Jul 10, 2019

I believe there's another program out there called pxz, we probably don't want to steal their name. Could you just set an alias if this is the behaviour you want?

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jowagner commented Aug 6, 2019

How then about parallelxz? The point is that having two names documented in the man page much stronger draws attention to the tar-specific behaviour of pixz (reflected in the i in the name) than the current documentation.

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