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		raimue on Oct 8, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternat... You could just use bsdtar from libarchive, which handles all the compression and archive formats automatically without additional tools. https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/LibarchiveForm... GNU tar is so limited, but unfortunately still the default on most systems.

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