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Re:GDB 7.11 released by rurban on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @01:18PM (#11168877)
`tar xfJ gdb-7.11.tar.xz` for .xz files
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Re:GDB 7.11 released by fjarlq on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @02:09PM (#11169294)
Good point. GNU tar requires using the correct option, -J, when extracting an xz-compressed tarball.

But OS X tar is bsdtar, which ignores -z and -J when extracting because it automatically recognizes compression and does the right thing. So it turns out both our suggestions happen to work on OS X.

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Re:GDB 7.11 released by fs111 on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @05:58PM (#11170935)
nonsense, gnu tar unpacks anything with tar xf <file> just fine.
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Re:GDB 7.11 released by fjarlq on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:41PM (#11176625)
Oh, good point, I wasn't aware that GNU tar also supported automatic compression recognition. I should have tested it. Thanks!
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