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the fear of missing out a better compression (lemmy.world)
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[-] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 187 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Oblig. XKCD:

[-] SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works 227 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

tar -h

Edit: wtf... It's actually tar -?. I'm so disappointed

[-] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 217 points 4 weeks ago

boom

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 77 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 105 points 4 weeks ago

tar eXtactZheVeckingFile

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 27 points 4 weeks ago

Me trying to decompress a .tar file

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Joke's on you, .tar isn't compression

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

That's not going to stop me from getting confused every time I try!

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 18 points 3 weeks ago

You don't need the v, it just means verbose and lists the extracted files.

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

You may not, but I need it. Data anxiety is real.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

You don't need the z, it auto detects the compression

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I just tell our Linux newbies tar xf, as in "extract file", and that seems to stick perfectly well.

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

That's still kinda new. It didn't always do that.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Per https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/, it's been the case since 2004, so for about 19 and a half years...

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

Telling someone that they are Old with saying they are old…

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Something something don't cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written...

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Right, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 60 points 4 weeks ago

tar -xzf

(read with German accent:) extract the files

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 28 points 4 weeks ago

Ixtrekt ze feils

[-] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

German here and no shit - that is how I remember that since the first time someone made that comment

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

Same. Also German btw 😄

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Not German but I remember the comment but not the right letters so I would have killed us all.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 weeks ago

That’s so good I wish I needed to memorize the command

[-] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

z is for gzip archives only.

tar xf for eXtract the File

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 21 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

tar -uhhhmmmfuckfuckfuck

[-] Waffelson@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

The Fish shell shows me just the past command with tar So I don't need to remember strange flags

[-] naught@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

I 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™

[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 weeks ago

man tar

you never said I can't run a command before it.

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago

without looking, what’s the flag to push over ssh with compression

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 4 points 4 weeks ago

scp

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago

not compressed by default

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