so it has to be the TAP Formatter
No. Looks like it its from https://metacpan.org/source/WONKO/TAP-Harness-Archive-0.14/lib/TAP/Harness/Archive.pm
# if it's not a format we understand, or it's not a directory
$class->_croak("Archive is not a known format type!")
unless $format && $ARCHIVE_TYPES{$format};
my (%ARCHIVE_TYPES, @ARCHIVE_EXTENSIONS);
BEGIN {
%ARCHIVE_TYPES = (
'tar' => 'tar',
'tar.gz' => 'tar.gz',
'tgz' => 'tar.gz',
);
@ARCHIVE_EXTENSIONS = map { ".$_" } keys %ARCHIVE_TYPES;
}
So its your xargs invocatio or its the extra -a/--archive option you're not showing