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0 points_ZeD_6y ago0 comments

With GNU tar, the -a flag is not needed

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You don't need it with libarchive-based BSD tar either. It can also extract zipfiles, ISO archives, and many other formats with just "tar xf file.zip".

qalmakka6y ago

libarchive is really awesome! I've started using bsdtar everywhere, it's so well done and polished I never felt the need to bother with anything else (same goes for bsdcpio)

bscphil6y ago

Note that it doesn't work with compression.

  tar cf example.tar.zst example

creates an uncompressed tar archive.

  tar caf example.tar.zst example

creates a zstd compressed archive.

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