Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:43:34 +0100,
Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> but it's actually a lot less trouble to just do:
>
> "tar xf dracut-$version.tar.bz2"
>
> which auto-detects the archive type. It's much easier to just let
> it be handled by autodetection, and only bother specifying the
> archive type manually if the autodetection trips up.
How long has that feature been there?
A good while. From the tar NEWS file:
version 1.15 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-20
* Compressed archives are recognised automatically, it is no
longer necessary to specify -Z, -z, or -j options to read them.
Thus, you can now run `tar tf archive.tar.gz'.
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