GNU bug report logs - #44901
28.0.50; dired-compress-file: provide customization for compressing command

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Reported by: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>

Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:51:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

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From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
To: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Cc: 44901 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44901: 28.0.50; dired-compress-file: provide customization for compressing command
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 13:02:25 +0300

Additionally this variable should be updated:

(defvar dired-compress-files-alist
  '(("\\.tar\\.gz\\'" . "tar -cf - %i | gzip -c9 > %o")
    ("\\.tar\\.bz2\\'" . "tar -cf - %i | bzip2 -c9 > %o")
    ("\\.tar\\.xz\\'" . "tar -cf - %i | xz -c9 > %o")
    ("\\.tar\\.zst\\'" . "tar -cf - %i | zstd -19 -o %o")
    ("\\.zip\\'" . "zip %o -r --filesync %i"))

to be:

(defvar dired-compress-files-alist
  '(("\\.tar\\.gz\\'" . "tar -cf - %i | gzip -c9 > %o")
    ("\\.tar\\.bz2\\'" . "tar -cf - %i | bzip2 -c9 > %o")
    ("\\.tar\\.xz\\'" . "tar -cf - %i | xz -c9 > %o")
    ("\\.tar\\.lz\\'" . "tar -cf - %i | lzip -c9 > %o") ;; new line for lzip
    ("\\.tar\\.lzo\\'" . "tar -cf - %i | lzop -c9 > %o") ;; new line for lzop
    ("\\.tar\\.zst\\'" . "tar -cf - %i | zstd -19 -o %o")
    ("\\.zip\\'" . "zip %o -r --filesync %i"))

Updating that function with those compressors is useful and related
this wish to have "gzip" also customizable. As dired-x supports
decompressing various files but user have no possibility to customize
the compressor command.

There are also pbzip2, pigz, pixz, pixz that offer parallel
compression that could be included in future.
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