[Bug bzip2/27752] New: -f behavior differs from GNU gzip

pgajdos at suse dot cz sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org
Mon Apr 19 10:36:51 GMT 2021


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27752

            Bug ID: 27752
           Summary: -f behavior differs from GNU gzip
           Product: bzip2
           Version: unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: bzip2
          Assignee: nobody at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: pgajdos at suse dot cz
                CC: bzip2-devel at sourceware dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

Manual page says:

-f

bzip2  normally declines to decompress files which don't have the correct magic
header bytes.  If forced (-f), however, it will pass such files through
unmodified.  This is how GNU gzip behaves.

However:

$ echo hello world | bzip2 -dcf
$

in the opposite of:

$ echo hello world | gzip -dcf
hello world
$

Original bug:
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884004

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