Gene Heskett (2018-01-25): > It would help to run the correct unpacker. xz is relatively new, and the > command is: xz -d packagename.xz. If its a tarball, thats what you'll > get back. If it an image for an sd card, that's what you will get back. > > running tar xf is asking tar to do something it cannot do, at least not > yet. > > man xz can be quite educational ;-) The 1990's are calling, they want their man pages back. Even in the 1990's, no competent Unix user would never unpack an archive as a file, they would use pipelines. And nowadays, tar know how to do that all by itself, including detecting the archive type. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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