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Child process exited with status 254 error when extracting a tar.xz file
I'm trying to extract a tar.xz file with tar in Mac OS X Lion. I'm using bsdtar 2.8.3 - libarchive 2.8.3. I'm able to use tar to extract anything else I've tried (.zip, .tar, .tar.gz, etc.), but when ...
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Why doesn't tar recognize .iso files, even though the documentation says it should?
man tar says that OS X's tar implementation should be able to extract .iso files.
tar creates and manipulates streaming archive files. This implementation can extract from tar, pax, cpio, zip, ...
