On Tue, 06 May 2008 14:40:08 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2 > > and gzip compression and handle it automatically. > > That's only true for GNU tar. If you're also dealing with other > systems where you might not have GNU tar, you might be "surprised" > to find that "tar xvf file.tgz" doesn't work.
However, this thread is specifically about using tar on /Gentoo, which does use GNU tar. > Hence I think, that it is a good idea to keep on using z or j. That really depends on the level of portability your scripts need. Using z or j is more portable, but also more complex for scripting. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 46: Found missing
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