On Friday 02 March 2012 20:08:54 James K. Lowden wrote: > On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:48:07 -0700 Warren Young wrote: > > I still use systems[*] that don't have tar -J, and am likely to > > continue doing so for many years to come. Installing xz isn't a big > > deal, but typing the longer commands needed for separate > > decompression and untarring is. > > Exactly. And learning yet another unizipping command line is not now > and never will be worth my time. It might become necessary, but that's > another story.
that's a weak argument. the command line interface to gzip/bzip2/xz are largely the same on purpose. the -d -c -z -f -k -[0..9] -l -v -V -q -t -h flags all do the same thing, and really most people use a very small subset of those. xz -dc foo.tar.xz | tar xf - xzcat foo.tar.xz | tar xf - this largely sounds like "get off my lawn" -mike
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