No more .bz2 files from kernel.org

Posted Dec 30, 2013 13:15 UTC (Mon) by clopez (guest, #66009)
In reply to: No more .bz2 files from kernel.org by josh
Parent article: No more .bz2 files from kernel.org

You use 'a' to enable autodetection:

tar xfav file.tar.xz

Posted Dec 30, 2013 19:43 UTC (Mon) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]

That's only for auto-compression based on file extension. Auto-decompression requires no option:

/tmp$ tar caf foo.tar.xz foo
/tmp$ file foo.tar.xz
foo.tar.xz: XZ compressed data
/tmp$ tar xf foo.tar.xz
/tmp$ tar tf foo.tar.xz
foo/
foo/bar