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    the fear of missing out a better compression (lemmy.world)
    submitted 4 months ago by Krafting@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 188 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

    Oblig. XKCD:

    [–] SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works 230 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

    tar -h

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

    [–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 220 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    boom

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

    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 105 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    tar eXtactZheVeckingFile

    [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    Me trying to decompress a .tar file

    [–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

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

    [–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

    [–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

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

    [–] jj4211@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

    [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months 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 4 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] jj4211@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    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 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

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

    [–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

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

    [–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 60 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    tar -xzf

    (read with German accent:) extract the files

    [–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 28 points 4 months ago

    Ixtrekt ze feils

    [–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    Same. Also German btw 😄

    [–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 4 months 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 months ago

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

    [–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

    z is for gzip archives only.

    tar xf for eXtract the File

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

    tar -uhhhmmmfuckfuckfuck

    [–] Waffelson@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    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 4 months 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 months ago

    man tar

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

    [–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] shasta@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    scp

    [–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

    not compressed by default