On 19/11/2011 22:36, William Bulley wrote: > Possible, but unlikely. Plus I doubt that 'tar -tvf base.txz' without a > pipe having an "xzcat(1)" in front of the "tar(1)" command. Maybe there > is an "xz" option for tar(1) during extraction mode, but my tar(1) man > page doesn't list any, sigh... It does list -y and -z options for other > compression/decompression modes, hmmm.... :-(
bsdtar(1) -- accept no substitutes. Well, actually, it's libarchive
which bsdtar is built on top of. It automatically recognizes most
compression formats and most types of data archive -- including a few
that you probably wouldn't have thought of in that context. Try running
it against a .iso CDRom image.
Cheers,
Matthew
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