On Apr 3, 2013, at 08:48, Roger Pack <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is there anyway to install a "tar" binary that recognizes/understands
> xz files?  If not I suppose I'd like to request it (or should I file a
> trac ticket?)

/usr/bin/tar and /opt/local/bin/gnutar recognize the "J" flag for decompressing 
xz files:

tar xJf foo.tar.xz

Curiously they don't seem to support it for compressing. But for that, you can 
just pipe to xz:

tar c foo | xz > foo.tar.xz


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