• loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
    11·
    2 years ago

    I think with GNU tar, tar xf works every time

    Edit: I meant for all compression algorithms.

    EDIT 2: Fake news :)

    EDIT 3: idk man

    • timbuck2themoon
      3·
      2 years ago

      Even with .gz? Might have to try it later because I’m curious. Thought you always needed the z flag for that.

      • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        2 years ago

        Actually I just tried it again and seems like it works. Earlier when I replied to you, I was passing the .tar.gz file through a pipe.

        If I provide the file normally just xz is enough to extract it. Very strange.

        in ~/test took 2s
 ❯ ls
4.21.1.tar.gz

in ~/test
 ❯ file 4.21.1.tar.gz
4.21.1.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 9185280

in ~/test
 ❯ tar xf 4.21.1.tar.gz

in ~/test
 ❯ ls
i3-4.21.1/  4.21.1.tar.gz

in ~/test
 ❯ ls i3-4.21.1 | head
AnyEvent-I3/
contrib/
debian/
docs/
etc/
i3-config-wizard/
i3-dump-log/
i3-input/
i3-msg/
i3-nagbar/

        Example of failure:

        in ~/test
 ❯ curl --silent -L 'https://github.com/i3/i3/archive/refs/tags/4.21.1.tar.gz' | tar xf -
tar: Archive is compressed. Use -z option
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now