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tar -vczfx123 ought to do it (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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img title="I don't know what's worse--the fact that after 15 years of using tar I still can't keep the flags straight, or that after 15 years of technological advancement I'm still mucking with tar flags that were 15 years old when I started."

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

tar -cvf CowsLookLikeMaps.tar CowsLookLikeMaps

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I just remember zxvf, but if I have to do anything else then extract a tar.gz we’re fucked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

tldr tar | head -n 1

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

tar -xvf is the only one I know

And I think it was tar -cvf for creating .tar files?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

7zz x *

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Or just double click.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Btw, GNU tar has long options.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I always liked dtrx (do the right extraction)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

tar -h

I'll take my award in all ones please

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