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If you are getting an error similar to:

tar: Failed to open '/dev/sa0'

while trying to extract an archive piped to tar like:

cat archive.tar | tar -x

You probably want to define -f - to tell tar to extract from stdin.

cat archive.tar | tar -xf -

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