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You can just call ‘tar xvf’ and it will detect the compression format.
by lightbulbjim 5y ago
You can just call ‘tar xvf’ and it will detect the compression format.
- necovek 5y agoMy question was about how "tar xvzf" should be called "untar". Your reply might still make sense (i.e. untar could automagically figure it out), but I was highlighting how tar/untar today also means (de)compressing that tar archive using many different compression formats.
- nicoburns 5y agoIt should probably be `untar --format gzip`