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Actually, for extracting tar files, using xf is enough. tar xf archive.tar.gz tar xf archive.tar.bz2 Still, this will be useful for other formats, I t

Actually, for extracting tar files, using xf is enough. tar xf archive.tar.gz tar xf archive.tar.bz2 Still, this will be useful for other formats, I think. Thanks.

ez77 15y ago
Don't you need the z and j flags, respectively? The way you write it works for uncompressed tars.
- phaker 15y ago
  Did you check? GNU tar will guess based on file suffix.
  - pjscott 15y ago
    That's cool, although most of the time when I use tar, it's in a command line like curl http://example.com/foo.tar.gz | tar zxf -