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ez77 on Aug 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Command line tools for web developers

Don't you need the z and j flags, respectively? The way you write it works for uncompressed tars.

phaker on Aug 14, 2011 [–]

Did you check? GNU tar will guess based on file suffix.

pjscott on Aug 14, 2011 | [–]

That's cool, although most of the time when I use tar, it's in a command line like

    curl http://example.com/foo.tar.gz | tar zxf -

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