[Toybox] [PATCH] file, tar: basic zstd awareness.

[enh]

On Sat, Dec 7, 2024, 18:25 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 12/6/24 13:57, enh wrote:
> > We're seeing ever more zstd-compressed files in the wild, so even though
> > toybox can't compress/decompress zstd without an external helper, it
> > still seems useful to integrate with any that happens to be on the
> > system.
>
> No short option for zstd, even though every other explicit archive
> format has one?
>

technically there are a couple of other compression options that are
longopt only, such as --lzma (but i haven't added those here because i've
yet to see them used).

this probably made sense when it was added in 2019, and it wasn't clear how
popular, zstd was going to become. (especially in comparison to the other
options we don't have.)

though tbh, zstd seems more popular in non-tar contexts ... i had to ask
the internet what the long and short extensions were!

Rob
>
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