tar with xz support enabled
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Apr 3 08:33:18 PDT 2013
On Apr 3, 2013, at 08:48, Roger Pack <rogerdpack2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there anyway to install a "tar" binary that recognizes/understands
> xz files? If not I suppose I'd like to request it (or should I file a
> trac ticket?)
/usr/bin/tar and /opt/local/bin/gnutar recognize the "J" flag for decompressing xz files:
tar xJf foo.tar.xz
Curiously they don't seem to support it for compressing. But for that, you can just pipe to xz:
tar c foo | xz > foo.tar.xz
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