automatic compression selection for tar

Using a instead of z,j,J ... makes it easy to use different compression programms
2014-09-04 10:44:00 +02:00
parent b83819f634
commit 36191abc18
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--- a/pages/common/tar.md
+++ b/pages/common/tar.md
@@ -22,3 +22,7 @@
 - extract a bzipped archive in the current directory

 `tar xjf {{source.tar.bz2}}`
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+- create a compressed archive, using archive suffix to determine the compression programm
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+`tar caf {{target.tar.xz}} {{file1 file2 file3}}`