[asterisk-users] http://www.asterisk.org/downloads naming schema

[Steve Edwards]

>> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Jose P. Espinal wrote:
>>
>>> If you are using a script you could get the version with something like:
>>>
>>> tar -tf asterisk-1.4-current.tar.gz | head -n1

> On 09/22/2010 11:20 AM, Steve Edwards wrote:

>> You need a '-z' in there.

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> Modern versions of 'tar' auto-detect gzip and bzip compression :-)

Gee. Who knew :)

CentOS 4.8 (tar 1.14) doesn't. CentOS 5.5 (tar 1.15.1) does.

Still, for scripting and portability, I'd recommend specifying the 
"decompressor" and using the long option form:

 	tar\
 		--list\
 		--[un]gzip\
 		--file\
 			asterisk-1.4-current.tar.gz


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