Bug 14771

Summary: Feature Request: Busybox GZip -l compatibility
Product: Busybox Reporter: Synper311
Component: OtherAssignee: unassigned
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: enhancement CC: busybox-cvs
Priority: P5    
Version: 1.35.x   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Synper311 2022-04-24 15:09:48 UTC
There are a number of tools and scripts which assume the presence of the GZip -l argument to list the compressed file's contents, namely XArchiver and other archivers which work with system-present archivers.

I reproduced the behavior on Alpine Linux Edge (v3.15.x) with Busybox v1.35.0 and XArchiver 0.5.4.17.

GNU GZip documentation:  
https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/manual/gzip.html#Sample

Bug filed downstream with XArchiver:  
https://github.com/ib/xarchiver/issues/144