4 ms·Don't you need the z and j flags, respectively? The way you write it works for uncompressed tars.by ez77 15y agoDon't you need the z and j flags, respectively? The way you write it works for uncompressed tars.phaker 15y agoDid you check? GNU tar will guess based on file suffix.pjscott 15y agoThat'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 -