I tried to extract the attached zstandard-compressed tar archive `testdir.tar.zst' using the dired-guess-default suggested shell command, which is unzstd -c %i | tar -xf - It fails with the message zstd: can't stat %i : No such file or directory -- ignored tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: testdir.tar.zst: Not found in archive What instead works is using the command tar --use-compress-program=unzstd -xvf My GNU tar version also is able to automatically detect zstandard files, so basically just "tar -xvf" is suffisient, but the version with "--use-compress-program=unzstd" is backwards-compatible to older tar versions. I suggest fixing that in `dired-guess-shell-alist-default'. Though there might be tar versions out there which don't support `--use-compress-program' (I don't know), then maybe a piping solution might be better, but that should be done in a way that avoid the above error (not sure what actually causes it). I use GNU tar version 1.35 and unzstd version v1.5.5. --- In GNU Emacs 29.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.38, cairo version 1.17.8) System Description: Arch Linux Configured using: 'configure --with-pgtk --with-native-compilation=aot --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-tree-sitter --localstatedir=/var --with-cairo --disable-build-details --with-harfbuzz --with-libsystemd --with-modules 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -g -ffile-prefix-map=/build/emacs/src=/usr/src/debug/emacs -flto=auto' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now -flto=auto' 'CXXFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -g -ffile-prefix-map=/build/emacs/src=/usr/src/debug/emacs -flto=auto'' Configured features: ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PGTK PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XIM GTK3 ZLIB Important settings: value of $LC_COLLATE: C.UTF-8 value of $LC_CTYPE: en_GB.UTF-8 value of $LC_MESSAGES: en_US.UTF-8 value of $LC_MONETARY: de_DE.UTF-8 value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_US.UTF-8 value of $LC_TIME: de_DE.UTF-8 value of $LANG: C value of $XMODIFIERS: \@im=fcitx locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Dired by name Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t show-paren-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t indent-tabs-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media puny rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util text-property-search time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils shell pcomplete comint ansi-osc ansi-color ring dired-aux cl-loaddefs comp comp-cstr warnings icons subr-x rx cl-seq cl-macs gv cl-extra help-mode bytecomp byte-compile cl-lib dired dired-loaddefs rmc iso-transl tooltip cconv eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/pgtk-win pgtk-win term/common-win pgtk-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq simple cl-generic indonesian philippine cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs theme-loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo gtk pgtk lcms2 multi-tty make-network-process native-compile emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 88176 12534) (symbols 48 7814 1) (strings 32 22832 2092) (string-bytes 1 699474) (vectors 16 17190) (vector-slots 8 350551 18772) (floats 8 30 40) (intervals 56 440 0) (buffers 984 15))