GNU bug report logs - #53010
info needed

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Package: gzip;

Reported by: <emil.ramsis.ext <at> orange.com>

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 16:10:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 53010 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio <at> gnu.org>
To: emil.ramsis.ext <at> orange.com
Cc: 53010 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#53010: info needed
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 17:40:39 +0100

emil.ramsis.ext <at> orange.com wrote:
> Can I check the compression algorithm of a compressed file if it was compressed with gzip -9 ?

Try 'file'. If the output does not mention any compression method, the file 
was compressed with DEFLATE:

$ file libpng-1.6.37.tar.gz
libpng-1.6.37.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, was "libpng-1.6.37.tar", from 
Unix, last modified: Sun Apr 14 20:10:32 2019, max compression

Regards,
Antonio.
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