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		mbakke on Dec 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop using gzip If you don't explicitly specify (de)compression method (z for gzip, J for xz), tar will try to guess it.

marcosdumay on Dec 12, 2015 [–]

That's new. Tar didn't use to behave that way, and plenty of people got used to specifying flags.

neerdowell on Dec 12, 2015 | [–]

And many implementations don't behave that way.

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