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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

tar -extract -any -file is easier, auto detect the compression based on filename.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think GNU tar automatically detects the compression, making -a unnecessary in that case.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

And -z. tar -xf foo.tar.{gz,xz,zstd,...} will work perfectly fine.