restore: transparently support gzipped input

[notmuch] / doc / man1 / notmuch-restore.rst

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@@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ Supported options for **restore** include
             format, this heuristic, based the fact that batch-tag format
             contains no parentheses, should be accurate.
 
             format, this heuristic, based the fact that batch-tag format
             contains no parentheses, should be accurate.
 

+GZIPPED INPUT
+=============
+
+\ **notmuch restore** will detect if the input is compressed in
+**gzip(1)** format and automatically decompress it while reading. This
+detection does not depend on file naming and in particular works for
+standard input.
+

 SEE ALSO
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 SEE ALSO
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