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| -rw-r--r-- | archival/gzip.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/archival/gzip.c b/archival/gzip.c index fed93907b..44b5fe386 100644 --- a/archival/gzip.c +++ b/archival/gzip.c @@ -1312,8 +1312,8 @@ int gzip_main(int argc, char **argv) outFileNum = STDOUT_FILENO; } - if (path == NULL && force == 0) { - perror_msg("compressed data not written to a terminal. Use -f to force compression."); + if (path == NULL && isatty(outFileNum) && force == 0) { + error_msg("compressed data not written to a terminal. Use -f to force compression."); free(path); continue; } |