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		sneusse on May 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Useless Use of "dd" (2015) Won't this fail when the file is not gzipped but, for example, zstd compressed?

jhugo on May 23, 2022 [–]

It doesn't assume gzip, it detects the compression format.

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