Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck
10 points
I think you want to remove the c
because that means “create” an archive, and you’re missing a z
which applies gzip decompression/compression
13 points
I suppose it is tar version dependent, but on any recent Linux version I have used, you can just tar xvf <tar_name.tar.{z,gz,xz,etc}> and it will automatically figure out if it is compressed, what tools were used to compress it, and how to decompress it.
But you are right, x and c are mutually exclusive.
1 point