Comment on Show HN: Extract it – Because nobody can remember tar commandsparentComments−adrusi11yIt's called tar. Seriously. I'm positive gnu tar will pick the compression engine based on the file contents, I think bsd does too. It's not a documented standard, but if all implementations support it, it may as well be.
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It's called tar. Seriously. I'm positive gnu tar will pick the compression engine based on the file contents, I think bsd does too. It's not a documented standard, but if all implementations support it, it may as well be.