Comment on Show HN: Extract it – Because nobody can remember tar commandsparentComments−spartas11yRecent versions of BSD tar will also detect the compression algorithm for extracting. No such luck with the -a, --auto-compress option though.−craftkiller11yBsdtar definitely supports -a. I'm on a phone so I can't help too much but its the first option after you Ctrl+f for getopt on https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/blob/master/tar/bsd...
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Recent versions of BSD tar will also detect the compression algorithm for extracting. No such luck with the -a, --auto-compress option though.
Bsdtar definitely supports -a. I'm on a phone so I can't help too much but its the first option after you Ctrl+f for getopt on https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/blob/master/tar/bsd...