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minus-squareoleorun@real.lemmy.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up189arrow-down1·edit-26 months agoOblig. XKCD:
minus-squareSpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up230·edit-26 months agotar -h Edit: wtf… It’s actually tar -?. I’m so disappointed
minus-squarecaseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up27·6 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-up18·6 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-up8·6 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-up2·6 months agoThat’s still kinda new. It didn’t always do that.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·6 months agoPer https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/, it’s been the case since 2004, so for about 19 and a half years…
minus-squarePetter1@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·6 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-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 months agoRight, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running
minus-squaresmiletolerantly@awful.systemslinkfedilinkarrow-up60·6 months agotar -xzf (read with German accent:) extract the files
minus-squareichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·6 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-up8·6 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-up8arrow-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-up5arrow-down16·6 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…
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
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.