On 2021-Jul-21, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 21.07.21 01:45, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > <screen>
> > -<userinput>gunzip postgresql-&version;.tar.gz</userinput>
> > -<userinput>tar xf postgresql-&version;.tar</userinput>
> > +<userinput>tar xfa postgresql-&version;.tar.gz</userinput>
> > </screen>
>
> The "a" option only applies when creating a tar archive ("c" command). So
> adding it here does nothing.
Oh, so the current `tar x` knows to uncompress the file without any
additional options? I've been pointlessly adding 'z', 'j', 'a' for years ...
That means we can remove the `gunzip` line and replace it with nothing.
WFM ...
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