GNU bug report logs - #29006
gunzip does not works with an uppercase suffix

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Package: gzip;

Reported by: meo <at> xenialab.it

Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 06:32:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "meo (XeniaLab)" <meo <at> xenialab.it>
To: bug-gzip <at> gnu.org
Subject: gunzip does not works with an uppercase suffix
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 08:21:32 +0200

Hi,

its seems that gunzip does not works with uppercase suffixes...

Sample:
gzip pippo.txt
mv pippo.txt.gz pippo.txt.gz_Tape
gunzip -S gz_Tape pippo.txt.gz_Tape
*gunzip: pippo.txt.gz_Tape: unknown suffix -- ignored*

mv pippo.txt.gz_Tape pippo.txt.gz_tape
gunzip -S gz_Tape pippo.txt.gz_tape
* Works as expected *

I'm working with gzip-1.3.5-13.0.1.el5 but the error is the same on Solaris
and is not present on Mac OSX.

Is it a kwown problem? Will it be fixed?

ciao
meo&mauro
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