hannah commodore wrote:
On 01/02/2013, at 18:18, "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
thelionroars wrote:
Pfft; easy. I would struggle with traditional cpio, though. Or nc (either version) or socat. Incidentally, the comic neglects to take into account that (GNU) tar has gained --xz in the last decade.
most every version of tar on any modern systems I've used recently don't even require you to specify the compression when extracting. just tar -xf filename will suffice
For files, but not for streams (IIRC). I've mostly been using mksquashfs instead of tar for the last few years, because it preserves more metadata by default, offers better compression, and the result can be treated either as an archive (unsquashfs) or a filesystem (mount). On pre-squashfs systems, it builds out of git and runs fine without installation, only needs zlib1g-dev and optionally xz-dev. Craig, re run-without-args -- I like it!