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    Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck

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    [–] Hawke@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    eXtract, Verbose, gZip, File.

    Not sure why it doesn’t need the dash though.

    [–] d00phy@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    The dash used to be how to could tell how long someone had been using tar. If they started with Linux, they probably use a dash. If they started on a UNIX variant, they probably don’t. Either way, the dash isn’t needed.

    Also recently learned that recent versions of tar will autodetect compression. So for extraction, you just need “tar xf “

    [–] Hawke@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago
    [–] r4venw@kbin.social 14 points 5 months ago

    I always learnt it as Xtract Zee File and to make a tar ball, you want to Compress Zee File

    tar doesn’t need dashes because it’s weird.