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Some commands to confuse the newbies (post from GNU+Linux Humor) (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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this is from this post on [email protected]

You can find an explanation there if you are confused or learning

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

tar -xzf (eXtract Ze File)

tar -czf (Compress Ze File)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mmmnnn z means (de)compress, c means create: -xf and -cf extract and create uncompressed tarballs. Also it’s far more complicated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m sorry!

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