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Re:Use long flags when scripting (2013) by kiwijamo on Friday September 18, 2020 @06:41PM (#24522548)
Is -a a GNU extension? Doesn't seem to be in the man page for BSD tar.
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Re:Use long flags when scripting (2013) by Hello71 on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:40PM (#24522950)
it is, and it's unnecessary for decompression since GNU tar 1.21 according to a comment lower in the thread.
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