Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:36:59 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: gzip tries to unpack/pack 1st the filename of $GZIP Message-ID: <20101014083659.GA3150@current.Sisis.de>
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Hello, I was facing a problem in some Makefile/shell-scripting and finally I could nail it down: when you set the environment variable GZIP to something, for example to let it point to gzip itself, it tries 1st to unpack this file: $ GZIP=/usr/bin/gzip export GZIP $ $GZIP -dc source.tar.gz | wc -l gzip: /usr/bin/gzip: not in gzip format 645770 o $ GZIP=bla export GZIP $ gzip -dc source.tar.gz | wc -l gzip: can't stat: bla: No such file or directory 645770 Why is this? It's not mentioned in the man page. Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/
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