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Old XKCD, still relevant (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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

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[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 12 points 5 months ago

I guess man tar is cheating, but it is a command involving tar. Not a command using tar, but a tar command...

[-] neoman4426@fedia.io 13 points 5 months ago

I suppose tar --help would technically be a valid invoking of the binary itself if man tar doesn't

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[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago
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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Sudo halt -fn

[-] arc@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

I know tar zxf and xjf off by heart. I probably do 100x as many extracts as creates. Tar is a stupidly antiquated command though.

[-] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Why remember/include the algorithm? Tar can infer that. It's just bsdtar xf filename.* for everything. (bsdtar handles .zip as well)

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[-] Barzaria@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago
[-] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago

tar cJf file.tar.xz /path/to/file

tar xJf file.tar.xz /path/to/file.tar.xz -C /path/to/untar

is not very hard to remember

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago

Unless you use it daily, I think that's something I'd struggle with memorising, I'd just alias it tbh along with ls options

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[-] faerbit@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is a valid man command, but not a tar command

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[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 months ago

tar -cf file.tar directory/

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago

that was 8 seconds. close one, i saved us all

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[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Do people not use tab complete?

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

Found the person who's never used tar :-P

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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

tar -zxvf yourmom.tgz /home/xkcd/yourmomnude/* This was wrong. I intended to be creating a file -zcvf.

[-] Magister@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

tar, the tape archiver, I used it with tape, early 90s

[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

I just use ouch

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I've never had a problem remembering tar, but properly using PV, somehow I'm just not able to store that information in my brain.

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