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by archinal 3935 days ago
Don't you need the z flag as well since filename is gzipped?
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jamiesonbecker 3935 days ago
Not anymore! GNU tar now figures it out automagically :)
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oofabz 3935 days ago
BSD tar also has this functionality. "tar -xf <filename>" works for archives compressed with gzip, bzip2, or xz.
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