Comment by mkl
18 hours ago
> tar -cf archive.tar.gz foo bar
This will create an uncompressed .tar with the wrong name. You need a z option to specify gzip.
18 hours ago
> tar -cf archive.tar.gz foo bar
This will create an uncompressed .tar with the wrong name. You need a z option to specify gzip.
Apparently this is now automatically determined by the file name, but I still habitually add the flag. 30 years of muscle memory is hard to break!
I tried it to check before making the comment. In Ubuntu 25.04 it does not automatically enable compression based on the filename. The automatic detection when extracting is based on file contents, not name.