Re: t5562: gzip -k is not portable

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 20, 2018, 12:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20180620124006.GB7932@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20180620061306.GA7813@tor.lan>

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 08:13:06AM +0200, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:

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> Good eyes, thanks.
> The "-f -c" combo works:
> 
> -       gzip -k fetch_body &&
> +       gzip -f -c fetch_body >fetch_body.gz &&
>         test_copy_bytes 10 <fetch_body.gz >fetch_body.gz.trunc &&
> -       gzip -k push_body &&
> +       gzip -f -c push_body >push_body.gz &&

Do we still need "-f"? With "-c" gzip is only writing to stdout, so we should not need to force anything.

-Peff