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Workaround: Correct the text to name the tar created compressed archive files as ".tgz", ".tbz", and ".txz" respectively.

Description: In the discussion of tar, the examples / descriptions of creating a compressed archive use example filenames of <blah>.tar.gz (or .tar.bz or .tar.xz). I realize that this is being pedantic, but this is incorrect. Files that are created by tar, by convention, should have the file extensions ".tgz, ,tbz, and .txz". The extensions ".tar.gz", ".tar.bz", and ".tar.xz" are more correctly reserved for files that are created by (respectively) gzip, bzip2, and xz. (by default, these 3 utilities will automatically add their respective extension to the compressed output file).