Loving the new version of tar in current

sh1ft · 12-22-2004, 01:45 PM

In case no one noticed the current tree just upgraded to tar 1.15.1 which has an awsome new feature. From the changlog:

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Compressed archives are recognised automatically, 
it is no longer necessary to specify -Z, -z, or -j options to read them. 
Thus, you can now run tar tf archive.tar.gz and expect it to work!

nice, I was getting so sick of typing -xzvf when it was a .tar.bz and having to do it all over again.

Genesee · 12-22-2004, 04:25 PM

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Originally posted by sh1ft
nice, I was getting so sick of typing -xzvf when it was a .tar.bz and having to do it all over again.

I've done that countless times....

thanks for the tip.

freakyg · 09-19-2005, 09:27 PM

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Originally posted by sh1ft

nice, I was getting so sick of typing -xzvf when it was a .tar.bz and having to do it all over again.

LOL......this is what shell scripts are for.....I wrote a script that works with tar.bz OR tar.gz and put it in my ~/.home dir ---the command would be..

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untar.sh <filename>

maginotjr · 09-20-2005, 02:30 PM

sometimes xvfz or xvfj comes out without no thinking
hahaha

I think even with the latest tar I will still be using xvfz O.o

phil.d.g · 09-20-2005, 02:50 PM

I was just about to say that you've been able to do this for quite a while, then I realised the OP posted this 9 months ago. Why has it been brought up again?

uopjohnson · 09-20-2005, 03:52 PM

hehe. Nice. So I've been able to do this forever and no one told me... well long live LQ!

wpyh · 09-20-2005, 09:22 PM

Well, I think the new behaviour is not entirely correct... it's convenient, but not very correct, IMO. What I always do is:

bzip2 -dc my_archive.tar.bz2 | tar xv

IMHO, this is the correct way.