[Trac] TracTicket/Subversion Integration

Emmanuel Blot manu.blot at gmail.com
Tue Jul 25 05:43:18 CDT 2006


> Hmmm.  Didn't try file.  I initially tried to list the contents
> through "tar -ztvf", but it told me it wasn't a compressed file.

tar is an archive tool, not a compression tool
tar tzvf is equivalent to
gunzip -c <file> | tar tvf -

> Then, just for kicks, I tried opening it in vi and there it was - nice
> and textual.  I'll run "file" on it as soon as I get to the office and
> let you know.

vim is clever enough to uncompress a gzipped file on-the-fly: it will
show you the gunzipped content of the file, this does not tell you
whether the file is gzipped or not.

use "cat" if you do not have "file"; cat does not gunzip, so if the
file is actually gzipped, you should get some garbage as output.


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