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una (https://github.com/jwiegley/una), a universal unarchiver which handles choosing between tar, unzip, etc. for you.

You could just use bsdtar from libarchive, which handles all the compression and archive formats automatically without additional tools.

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/LibarchiveForm...

GNU tar is so limited, but unfortunately still the default on most systems.

You can't install this with cargo. Una is a Haskell program; you can get it with `stack install una`.

Whoops, good point. In the long run I think Una's a good candidate for being installed at the systems level, because you really want to install unzip, etc. along with it.

EDIT: The idea being that if you install it with your system package manager it can have unzip etc. as dependencies so that's taken care of automatically.

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