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Re:From macOS to Windows and WSL by umanwizard on Friday December 07, 2018 @02:02PM (#18630511)
The only two tar commands most people will ever need:

Equivalent of "zip": `tar cjf OutputFile.tar.bz2 InputFileOne InputFileTwo InputFileThree`

Equivalent of "unzip": `tar xf InputFile.whatever.extension`

(This works whether `InputFile.whatever.extension` is bzipped, gzipped, or not compressed at all)

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Re:From macOS to Windows and WSL by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday December 07, 2018 @06:10PM (#18632542)
I would strongly suggest that you use the `a` flag rather than `j`, to automatically select file type.
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