Gregory's Server@april huh I thought this was particular to GNU tar but I just checked and the BSDs have it too
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@fraggle @kepstin @cyberia @april yup! “This implementation can extract from tar, pax, cpio, zip, jar, ar, and ISO 9660 cdrom images and can create tar, pax, cpio, ar, and shar archives. https://opensource.apple.com/source/libarchive/libarchive-14/libarchive/doc/text/bsdtar.1.auto.html |
@cyberia @april at least some of the bsds use the tar implementation based on libarchive, which not only lets you omit the 'z', but it also works on random other formats, like zip, cpio, 7z, iso, etc. files. At least that way you don't have to remember multiple sets of alphabet soup options for different tools.