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    [–] janAkali@lemmy.one 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I don't understand.
    How is it hard to remember: "eXtract File" = "tar xf ..."? If tar is gZipped - it's "tar xzf ...".
    I don't think I've ever seen tarball that wouldn't work with one of these two commands.

    [–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

    Never encountered a bz2 tar? Then the flag is j.

    [–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Usually the distro has tar in automatic and automatically detects which compression flag to use so tar xf ... usually just works

    [–] chellomere@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

    Yeah it's many years that I haven't had to specify z, j etc.

    [–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

    Just use tar xaf to auto-detect the format. (Mnemonic: “extract a file”)