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Mac OS X 10.4.11: less tar

Although it seems late in the game to be adding new features to Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4.11 includes not only the high-profile Safari 3 update but also a few other interesting little additions. For instance, when you uncompress a .tar.gz file in Finder it no longer leaves behind a useless .tar that you have to manually trash. Neat!

Of course, it wouldn’t be Finder without some annoyance. The trade-off for un-cluttering your Desktop is up-cluttering your console.log:

BOMArchiveHelper[454] opened /Users/jeff/Desktop/.BAHEm7Xn/my-directory.tar

I’m not sure why they didn’t use tar xzf, which is approximately a billion times faster. Baby steps…

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One Response to “Mac OS X 10.4.11: less tar”

  1. Jordy/Jediknil Says:
    December 10th, 2007 at 1:53 am

    Unfortunately (on Leopard at least), downloading a tar/gz archive still results in a tar archive, rather than the actual contents. Bleah!