On 3/6/2012 2:31 AM, Olaf Lenz wrote:
On 03/06/2012 10:27 AM, Alberto Luaces wrote:
Warren Young writes: At least version 1.26 implements -a, which
determines the compressor from the file suffix.
I think that may be a red herring, because...
I think since some years now I don't need to give neither -z or -a, just
tar xvf bla.tar.xz
or
tar xvf bla.tar.gz
I did some research, and this was added in GNU tar 1.15, about 8 years
ago: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2004-12/msg00019.html
Serves me right for not watching ChangeLogs religiously.
Thanks all for cluing me into this new feature.
Alas, I do still use machines with tar < 1.15...
On 3/6/2012 4:10 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
On Mac OS X Lion, this actually happens: Regardless of the compression
algorithm, you always use `-z' while extracting.
I think this is probably also the same feature, where -z or -j is simply
no longer needed for -x or -t.
I tested with bsdtar, and it apparently has the same feature, at least
as of Lion.
Anyway, back to your regularly-scheduled autoconf.
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