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| author |  David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2014-03-29 15:12:28 -0300 |
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| committer | David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2014-04-12 07:59:44 -0300 |
| commit | 4c62d9366a389b7ddca796009d1dfe6a885cfde0 (patch) | |
| tree | e05fcb19762d063f401b0dc863fb9e5ccbec74bc /doc | |
| parent | de71c4d734bda72eb54b2874935dbd948610ddbe (diff) | |
restore: transparently support gzipped input
We rely completely on zlib to do the right thing in detecting gzipped
input. Since our dump format is chosen to be 7 bit ascii, this should
be fine.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/notmuch-restore.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch-restore.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch-restore.rst index d6cf19ab..936b1383 100644 --- a/doc/man1/notmuch-restore.rst +++ b/doc/man1/notmuch-restore.rst @@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ Supported options for **restore** include format, this heuristic, based the fact that batch-tag format contains no parentheses, should be accurate. +GZIPPED INPUT +============= + +\ **notmuch restore** will detect if the input is compressed in +**gzip(1)** format and automatically decompress it while reading. This +detection does not depend on file naming and in particular works for +standard input. + SEE ALSO ======== |