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Re: Editing zipped files with VIM under cygwin
At 14:00 13-11-2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 2. 'bzip2 --version > xx' doesn't finish.
>
>I can reproduce that but don't know why that happens, currently.
That seems to be a bzip2 feature/bug. (It behaves the same on RedHat 7.1.)
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$ bzip2 --version
bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor. Version 1.0.1, 23-June-2000.
Copyright (C) 1996-2000 by Julian Seward.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms set out in the LICENSE file, which is included
in the bzip2-1.0 source distribution.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
LICENSE file for more details.
bzip2: I won't write compressed data to a terminal.
bzip2: For help, type: `bzip2 --help'.
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As you can see, the --version flag doesn't stop bzip2 from trying to
compress standard input.
Possible workarounds:
$bzip2 --version --help 2>qqq
$bzip2 --version </dev/null >/dev/null 2>qqq
- Michael
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