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Oblig. XKCD:
tar -hEdit: wtf... It's actually
tar -?. I'm so disappointedboom
tar eXtactZheVeckingFile
Me trying to decompress a .tar file
Joke's on you, .tar isn't compression
That's not going to stop me from getting confused every time I try!
You don't need the v, it just means verbose and lists the extracted files.
You don't need the z, it auto detects the compression
Yeah, I just tell our Linux newbies
tar xf, as in "extract file", and that seems to stick perfectly well.That's still kinda new. It didn't always do that.
Per https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/, it's been the case since 2004, so for about 19 and a half years...
Telling someone that they are Old with saying they are old…
Something something don't cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written...
Right, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running
You may not, but I need it. Data anxiety is real.
tar -xzf
(read with German accent:) extract the files
Ixtrekt ze feils
German here and no shit - that is how I remember that since the first time someone made that comment
Same. Also German btw 😄
Not German but I remember the comment but not the right letters so I would have killed us all.
That’s so good I wish I needed to memorize the command
zis for gzip archives only.tar xffor eXtract the Filetar -uhhhmmmfuckfuckfuck
The Fish shell shows me just the past command with tar
So I don't need to remember strange flags
I use zsh and love the fish autocomplete so I use this:
https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
Also have
fzfforctrl + rto fuzzy find previous commands.I believe it comes with oh-my-zsh, just has to be enabled in plugins and itjustworks™
man tar
you never said I can't run a command before it.
without looking, what’s the flag to push over ssh with compression
scp
not compressed by default
That's yet another great joke that GNU ruined.