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tar -vczfx123 ought to do it (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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img title="I don't know what's worse--the fact that after 15 years of using tar I still can't keep the flags straight, or that after 15 years of technological advancement I'm still mucking with tar flags that were 15 years old when I started."

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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