Bug 28483 - /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh uses wrong tar flag to decompress *.tar.bz2 archives
Summary: /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh uses wrong tar flag to decompress *.tar.bz2 archives
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: less
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Karsten Hopp
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-20 19:06 UTC by kehcheng
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-02-20 19:06:38 UTC
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Description kehcheng 2001-02-20 19:06:33 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-0.99.23 i686)


/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh uses "tar tIvvf" to list a bzip2-compressed
tar file contents.  The "I" flag no longer works with tar version 1.13.18,
which now needs the "j" flag.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. less some.tar.bz2
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  "some.tar.bz2" may be a binary file.  See it anyway?

Expected Results:  should have generated file listing of some.tar.bz2
Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2001-02-21 13:22:05 UTC 
we have a new tar package in rawhide which restores the old -I behavior.
I agree that this should be fixed for the next release, but until then...
deferred.
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