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  • Also not that it gives execute permissions to non-directory files. Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 9:40
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    It's also a bit dangerous in that chmod follows symlinks. So if a user is tricked into unpacking an archive that contains a symlink to ~/.profile for instance, that would have bad consequences. Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 9:41
  • I've added the (GNU-specific) -d '\n' so it doesn't fail with archive members that contain whitespace or quoting characters, but newline characters are still a problem. Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 9:42
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    Nice one. In our case the tar we have to extract are safe on that point of view but it is a valid point and nice update. Just as info I tried both tar with xargs and star the first seems more performant Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 10:05