Dave Vasilevsky
Dave Vasilevsky
Stdout is totally supported! I can do `cat SOMEFILE | pixz | wc -c` and I get totally reasonable results. Is there some situation where stdout is not working for...
Ah, so your problem is we don't have the exact same arguments as `xz`. But you can still do the same operation, just worded a bit different: `pixz -d <...
Updated the readme!
Thanks for your question, this is indeed the best place to ask. The XZ index is automatically created by pixz, and does include the data you need to do the...
Thanks for the report. I'll try to look into it soon.
Ok, bug confirmed. I'm starting to work on it, but it involves some pretty grotty code, so no promises yet. It might have to wait for the next minor version....
Thanks for the report! The default compression level is -6, which uses a dictionary size of 8 MiB. The default block size ratio is 2.0, so that yields a block...
See also: https://github.com/vasi/pixz/issues/9
@JoernEngel : Could it be that the thing you compressed is a tar file? When it sees a tarball, pixz will by default add an index, so that it's possible...
Yeah, unfortunately the xz file format doesn't allow for arbitrary extra data to be carried along, like gzip does. Or at least I haven't found a way to do that....