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  • chellomere@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Then comes a .tar.bz2 file along and you’re screwed. xtract je vucking file?

    Pro tip: -z, -j are not needed by tar anymore since many years, tar will autodetect what compression was used if your distro is anything remotely modern.

    • allywilson@sopuli.xyz
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      8 months ago

      Pro tip: -z, -j are not needed by tar anymore since many years, tar will autodetect what compression was used if your distro is anything remotely modern.

      😵

    • aard@kyu.de
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      8 months ago

      You still might want to do something like alias pbtar='tar --use-compress-prog=pbzip2 to easily use pbzip2 - unless you have an ancient system that’ll speed things up significantly. And even if you don’t it’d be nice to use it for creation - to utilize more than one core the archive needs to be created for parallel extraction.