How to untar in a version agnostic way? I want to repetitively untar a file which I often download in new versions; for example: cd download_directory myFile-1.99.tar.gz # Version 2.x might be released next day or next week or next month; I have tried a similar command with shellglob/wildcard which failed: cd download_directory tar -xzv myFile-*.tar.gz I also tried the following command after reading the manual about `--wildcards` but it also failed: cd download_directory tar -xzv myFile-*.tar.gz --wildcards How to untar in a version agnostic way?

cd download_directory
tar -xzf "$(find . -name 'myFile-*.tar.gz' | tail -n 1)"