Re: t5562: gzip -k is not portable

From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Jun 20, 2018, 15:41 UTC
Message-ID: <20180620154123.GB19382@tor.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20180620124006.GB7932@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 08:40:06AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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

You are rigth, -f is not needed.

I was confusing stdout with terminal :-( Most often stdout is the terminal, but not here of course.