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Comment by ez77 | Hacker News Reader

Don't you need the z and j flags, respectively? The way you write it works for uncompressed tars.

Did you check? GNU tar will guess based on file suffix.

That's cool, although most of the time when I use tar, it's in a command line like

    curl http://example.com/foo.tar.gz | tar zxf -