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1vuio0pswjnm7 on May 8, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Unix command line conventions over time

If I have a script I want to work on both BSD and Linux, and I do want to rely on uname, I usually do something like

   bzip2 -dc 1.tar.bz2|tar xf -

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