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minus-squareoleorun@real.lemmy.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up166arrow-down1·edit-26 months agoOblig. XKCD:
minus-squareSpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up196·edit-26 months agotar -h Edit: wtf… It’s actually tar -?. I’m so disappointed
minus-squarecaseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up26·6 months agoMe trying to decompress a .tar file
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 months agoJoke’s on you, .tar isn’t compression
minus-squarecaseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 months agoThat’s not going to stop me from getting confused every time I try!
minus-squarezaphod@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·6 months agoYou don’t need the v, it just means verbose and lists the extracted files.
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·6 months agoYou may not, but I need it. Data anxiety is real.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·6 months agoYou don’t need the z, it auto detects the compression
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 months agoYeah, I just tell our Linux newbies tar xf, as in “extract file”, and that seems to stick perfectly well.
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoThat’s still kinda new. It didn’t always do that.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 months agoPer https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/, it’s been the case since 2004, so for about 19 and a half years…
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 months agoRight, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running
minus-squarePetter1@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 months agoTelling someone that they are Old with saying they are old…
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 months agoSomething something don’t cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written…
minus-squaresmiletolerantly@awful.systemslinkfedilinkarrow-up57·6 months agotar -xzf (read with German accent:) extract the files
minus-squareichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·6 months agoGerman here and no shit - that is how I remember that since the first time someone made that comment
minus-squarelightnsfw@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoNot German but I remember the comment but not the right letters so I would have killed us all.
minus-squarebrbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 months agoThat’s so good I wish I needed to memorize the command
minus-squareBaumGeist@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoz is for gzip archives only. tar xf for eXtract the File
minus-squareWaffelson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·6 months agoThe Fish shell shows me just the past command with tar So I don’t need to remember strange flags
minus-squarenaught@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 months agoI use zsh and love the fish autocomplete so I use this: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions Also have fzf for ctrl + r to fuzzy find previous commands. I believe it comes with oh-my-zsh, just has to be enabled in plugins and itjustworks™
minus-squareCaptainBasculin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·6 months agoman tar you never said I can’t run a command before it.
minus-squareJoYo 🇺🇸@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agowithout looking, what’s the flag to push over ssh with compression
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down13·6 months agoThat’s yet another great joke that GNU ruined.
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 may not, but I need it. Data anxiety is real.
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…
Right, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running
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…
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.