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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Then comes a .tar.bz2 file along and you're screwed. xtract je vucking file?

Pro tip: -z, -j are not needed by tar anymore since many years, tar will autodetect what compression was used if your distro is anything remotely modern.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

Pro tip: -z, -j are not needed by tar anymore since many years, tar will autodetect what compression was used if your distro is anything remotely modern.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

You still might want to do something like alias pbtar='tar --use-compress-prog=pbzip2 to easily use pbzip2 - unless you have an ancient system that'll speed things up significantly. And even if you don't it'd be nice to use it for creation - to utilize more than one core the archive needs to be created for parallel extraction.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah I usually just do xf. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ