Re: extracting file with xz file tar.....
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 03:42:15PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> running tar xf is asking tar to do something it cannot do, at least not
> yet.
Says the wheezy user. The newer tar versions will auto-detect the
compression type and run the appropriate decompression program.
wooledg:~$ tar tvf manpages_3.74.orig.tar.xz | head
drwxr-xr-x mtk/mtk 0 2014-10-02 18:01 man-pages-3.74/
drwxr-xr-x mtk/mtk 0 2014-10-02 18:01 man-pages-3.74/man2/
...
(Don't ask why I have that file; it was simply the first *.tar.xz I
found.)
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