Issue 82 in xar: Add option to send extracted file to stdout

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New issue 82 by Len.Latt...@gmail.com: Add option to send extracted file to
stdout
http://code.google.com/p/xar/issues/detail?id=82

Would be nice to have an option like bsdtar -O to send extracted file to
stdout.
LESSOPEN.sh could use this to view inside xar files like it does for tar
archives.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Just like bsdtar -- right now all -x operations result in file extracted to
disk

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
xar 1.6dev OS X 10.7.3

Please provide any additional information below.

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Comment #1 on issue 82 by dbo...@gmail.com: Add option to send extracted

file to stdout
http://code.google.com/p/xar/issues/detail?id=82

Yes, it is sometimes useful to be able pipe the extracted file to a
filter. Using TEMPorary files is just ugly. Most archivers have this
(unzip -p, tar -O, 7za -so).
NB: A more flexible piping mechanism is proposed by Issue 48