[Bug 1290891] [NEW] Ability to write compressed data to stdout

[Sworddragon]

Public bug reported:

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 dev with xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2ubuntu2
and xz-utils provides the option -c to write to stdout but interestingly
this doesn't work with compressed data:

sworddragon at ubuntu:~/tmp$ xz -c 1
xz: Compressed data cannot be written to a terminal
xz: Try `xz --help' for more information.


As compressed data is not uncommon for a compressing application maybe writing compressed data to stdout can be supported too.

** Affects: xz-utils (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Ability to write compressed data to stdout

Status in “xz-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 dev with xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2ubuntu2
  and xz-utils provides the option -c to write to stdout but
  interestingly this doesn't work with compressed data:

  sworddragon at ubuntu:~/tmp$ xz -c 1
  xz: Compressed data cannot be written to a terminal
  xz: Try `xz --help' for more information.

  
  As compressed data is not uncommon for a compressing application maybe writing compressed data to stdout can be supported too.

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