Sept. 20, 2016
7:01 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016, at 13:26, Christos Zoulas wrote:
NetBSD has made gunzip detect the compressed format so -z just works. It is a trivial change, and friendly to the user.
I haven't even had to use z in years - OSX and GNU tar both detect the compressed format (GNU uses the filename extension, so this won't work in a pipeline or if the file has the wrong name).