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0 pointsgloflo1y ago0 comments

... --auto-compress ... foo.tar.zstd

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zie1y ago

That's cool! Is that a GNU tar only thing? Based on it being a longopt, I'm guessing a GNU tar only thing. That's the problem with these things, it takes a while to get pushed to all the installed copies of tar running around. Perhaps it's time to check:

  * MacOS Sonoma(14.6) has tar --auto-compress and --zstd
  * OpenBSD tar does not appear to have it: https://man.openbsd.org/tar
  * FreeBSD does: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar

Not quite fully baked yet.

qhwudbebd1y ago

Both libarchive ("bsdtar") and GNU tar have -a, which I guess are the only two upstream tar implementations that are still relevant? You're right, it can take a while for these things to propagate downstream though.

zie1y ago

Some of us use OpenBSD: https://man.openbsd.org/tar

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zie1y ago

  * MacOS Sonoma(14.6) has tar --auto-compress and --zstd
  * OpenBSD tar does not appear to have it: https://man.openbsd.org/tar
  * FreeBSD does: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar

Not quite fully baked yet.

qhwudbebd1y ago

zie1y ago

Some of us use OpenBSD: https://man.openbsd.org/tar

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