Extract ISO (9660) file on FreeBSD

A small reminder for me that FreeBSD’s tar (BSDTAR) can extract ISO files out of the box, unlike GNU tar which can’t as far as I know.

List files in the ISO file:

$ tar -tf filename.iso

Extract files to current directory (pwd)

$ tar -xf filename.iso

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