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Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck
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.
The fact that this thread contains, like, TONS of invalid invocations that people have been editing for correctness is fucking hilarious.
Also, QED π€
I memorized tar -cavf file.tar.bz2 directory/* and tar -xavf file.tar.bz2
tar --extract --file file.tar.gz
Anyone else make an untar.sh?
I always remember that it's eXtract Ze File, tar -xzf... But I'll be honest, I've not used it in years and years
cpio is way worse
All those years of using nautilus have made me weak
touch foo; tar cvf foo.tar foo
My fucking autocorrect decided that cvf should have been xvf. I caught it before I hit enter to close out the code block, but wtf? When did my keyboard develop opinions on command argsβ½
Tar -xvf
Now do a standard pax command.