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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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