On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Neal Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 07 December 2010 14:53:10 Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> When extracting, GNU tar is smart enough to recognize the compression >> type, if any, without being told. This capability has been in place for >> several years. > > Learn something new every day! I've been using the specific option for so > long, it's second nature. > > Didn't mean to be misleading. Mayhap I encounter versions of tar that don't > grok what they're reading.... > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
Debian was behind the times on tar for quite some time after the other Distros had moved to the newer "autodetection" versions. More OT: Try extracting without the v, it's much easier to catch errors and with some packages with lots of really small files, the terminal can actually limit the speed of the extraction. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
