• timbuck2themoon@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Even with .gz? Might have to try it later because I’m curious. Thought you always needed the z flag for that.

      • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 years ago

        Actually I just tried it again and seems like it works. Earlier when I replied to you, I was passing the .tar.gz file through a pipe.

        If I provide the file normally just xz is enough to extract it. Very strange.

        in ~/test took 2s
         ❯ ls
        4.21.1.tar.gz
        
        in ~/test
         ❯ file 4.21.1.tar.gz
        4.21.1.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 9185280
        
        in ~/test
         ❯ tar xf 4.21.1.tar.gz
        
        in ~/test
         ❯ ls
        i3-4.21.1/  4.21.1.tar.gz
        
        in ~/test
         ❯ ls i3-4.21.1 | head
        AnyEvent-I3/
        contrib/
        debian/
        docs/
        etc/
        i3-config-wizard/
        i3-dump-log/
        i3-input/
        i3-msg/
        i3-nagbar/
        

        Example of failure:

        in ~/test
         ❯ curl --silent -L 'https://github.com/i3/i3/archive/refs/tags/4.21.1.tar.gz' | tar xf -
        tar: Archive is compressed. Use -z option
        tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now