lrztar shows spurious "illegal option" with long options about lrzip

[pete4abw]

Ditch the = sign. The try again. lrztar is very complex. You can and possibly should use tar directly, as in:
tar --use-compress-program | -I 'lrzip -options...' -cf outputfile.tar.lrz [directories or files to tar]. This wiki will help.

[paddylandau]

@pete4abw — Thank you. Ditching the = sign made no difference. But using tar with --use-compress-program worked perfectly, thank you!

[pete4abw]

@pete4abw — Thank you. Ditching the = sign made no difference. But using tar with --use-compress-program worked perfectly, thank you!

Been a while since I looked at lrztar. It only supports short options. The reason the long command worked as expected was the outfile command was passed to lrzip. I wrote a front-end script for lrzip and lrzip-next called lrzip-fe. It has most all commands available. You can check out the repo on github.

[paddylandau]

Been a while since I looked at lrztar. It only supports short options.

Ah, I've make a note of that.

I wrote a front-end script for lrzip and lrzip-next called lrzip-fe. It has most all commands available. You can check out the repo on github.

Sorry, I'm not familiar with github. I tried to find both lrzip-next and lrzip-fe but found neither. It doesn't matter, though, because I'm happy with what I have now, thank you.