temporarily extract compressed archive files (.tar.gz
, .tar.xz
, etc.)
#298
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difficult
A difficult problem; a major coding effort or difficult algorithm to perfect
enhancement
New feature or request
P1
important
Summary
With #284 it is now pretty easy to extract a compressed file to a temporary file. So automatically handle compressed archive files, e.g.
logs.tar.gz
, etc.Current behavior
Given a gzipped tar file
dtf2-2_dtf3-1.tar.gz
Using s4 0.7.72
Suggested behavior
file.tar.ZZ
where.ZZ
is some compression name,.gz
,.xz
etc.file.tar
to a temporary directoryfile.tar
using functionprocess_tar
Setting the file path for display in
-p
and--summary
will require some minor refactoring.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: