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If you don't explicitly specify (de)compression method (z for gzip, J for xz), tar will try to guess it.
by ymse 11y ago
If you don't explicitly specify (de)compression method (z for gzip, J for xz), tar will try to guess it.
- marcosdumay 11y agoThat's new. Tar didn't use to behave that way, and plenty of people got used to specifying flags.
- neerdowell 11y agoAnd many implementations don't behave that way.