On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Of course I await the day when tar(BSD and GNU) embraces this great > technology. > Does it have to? A few people I know over IRC still do a gunzip foo.tar.gz | tar -xvf or bunzip2 foo.tar.bz2 | tar -xvf
I am a relatively modern linux user (circa 2002) and I use tar -xzvf *.tar.gz or tar -xjvf *.tar.bz2 I do not think the fact that tar did not have a x or j flag back then hurt. Also, some distro uses 7zip as one of its package compression options. I think I saw gentoo using it for its portage snapshot but I am not sure. Also an age old distro like slackware included it in Slack13 (LFY this month) (* As a side quote, cat went to UCB and came back waving flags :P *) --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
