[Bug 1290891] Re: Ability to write compressed data to stdout

[Sworddragon]

> This is not a bug, this is deliberate; it’s common to all utilities
that use a gzip(1)-like interface.

This is also not a bug report but a feature request. Is there a reason
why this should not be implemented?


> You can also force the binary data to show up on yout tty: xz -c 1 | cat

Could be tricky on a popen()-like function if you don't want to rely on
the shell.

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Title:
  Ability to write compressed data to stdout

Status in “xz-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 dev with xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2ubuntu2
  and xz-utils provides the option -c to write to stdout but
  interestingly this doesn't work with compressed data:

  sworddragon at ubuntu:~/tmp$ xz -c 1
  xz: Compressed data cannot be written to a terminal
  xz: Try `xz --help' for more information.

  
  As compressed data is not uncommon for a compressing application maybe writing compressed data to stdout can be supported too.

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