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I assume this will have a bad time on compressed files?

.zip extension is ignored by default along with other binary formats :)

Right but like .tar.gz, etc. are also a thing

You can just add your extensions to ignore with --ignore-ext. But I'll add .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 since they are widely used.

Or, have the tool recursively read the .tar files' contents.