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by the_mitsuhiko 3842 days ago
Pretty sure tar -xf does not actually work on osx unless you download a recent tar.
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M4v3R 3842 days ago
I have tar that came with the system (latest OSX) and tar -xf works just fine. And it did work fine for as long as I can remember.
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masklinn 3841 days ago
It does, and should have since at least 10.6 (I can find references to 10.6's tar being built on libarchive and that's one of libarchive's headline features; 10.5 predates libarchive so it may not have supported that)
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