Re: [dev] Looking for simple, alpha supporting image format

From: Nick <suckless-dev_AT_njw.me.uk>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:03:16 -0400

Quoth FRIGN:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:46:53 +0200
> FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de> wrote:
>
> > This is closer to the Unix-philosophy, however, as noted before,
> > bzip2 is way more efficient than gzip.
>
> As a small addition, .tar.bz2 gets closer, but there's no easy way to
> (b)zcat it.

I only read the manpage for gnu tar, so maybe it's not usefully
standard, but tar supports -O, so something like this ought to work:

bzcat < img.tar.bz2 | tar x -O
Received on Thu Jul 17 2014 - 15:03:16 CEST