Show HN: Extract it – Because nobody can remember tar commands

Re:Show HN: Extract it – Because nobody can remember tar com... by jamiesonbecker on Thursday September 10, 2015 @07:48PM (#10201242)

Or, add this to your .bashrc (ensure that it's sourced.. some distributions don't do this automatically):

     alias untar="tar xvf"

Then, open a new terminal window, and from then on it's just:

     untar filename.tar.gz

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Re:Show HN: Extract it – Because nobody can remember tar com... by archinal on Thursday September 10, 2015 @08:41PM (#10201392)

Don't you need the z flag as well since filename is gzipped?

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Re:Show HN: Extract it – Because nobody can remember tar com... by jamiesonbecker on Thursday September 10, 2015 @09:26PM (#10201520)

Not anymore! GNU tar now figures it out automagically :)

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Re:Show HN: Extract it – Because nobody can remember tar com... by oofabz on Thursday September 10, 2015 @11:58PM (#10201943)

BSD tar also has this functionality. "tar -xf <filename>" works for archives compressed with gzip, bzip2, or xz.

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