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Recent (as in, within the last ~3-5 years) versions of GNU tar automatically detect the type of compression and apply the appropriate tool, so you can often get

Recent (as in, within the last ~3-5 years) versions of GNU tar automatically detect the type of compression and apply the appropriate tool, so you can often get away with `tar xvf`.

ahartmetz 6y ago
Actually close to 12 years, GNU tar 1.21 https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/ https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/ Another "recent" (much more recent IIRC) change is that you don't need the dot anymore in find to search in the current directory.
- Hello71 6y ago
  according to https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/find/find.1?id=c030b5ee33bbec3c93cddc3ca9ebec14c24dbe07 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/find/..., this functionality has been present since findutils was moved under source control in 1996.
  - jfrunyon 6y ago
    I believe that GNU find used to (in some cases?) show a warning if the directory was omitted. Could be wrong.
- mehrdadn 6y ago
  I think the dot actually gives you issues on Mac? Or something like that. I remember encountering issues with it.
  - taejo 6y ago
    You have to specify a directory for the find on Mac; it's only a GNUism to omit it.
    - mehrdadn 6y ago
      Oh I see, I got it backwards somehow. Thanks!