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    • chellomere@lemmy.world
      29·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • allywilson@sopuli.xyz
        22·
        10 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.

        😵

      • aard@kyu.de
        5·
        10 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.