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minus-squarecaseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up27·7 months agoMe trying to decompress a .tar file
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 months agoJoke’s on you, .tar isn’t compression
minus-squarecaseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 months agoThat’s not going to stop me from getting confused every time I try!
minus-squarezaphod@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·7 months agoYou don’t need the v, it just means verbose and lists the extracted files.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·7 months agoYou don’t need the z, it auto detects the compression
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 months agoYeah, I just tell our Linux newbies tar xf, as in “extract file”, and that seems to stick perfectly well.
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoThat’s still kinda new. It didn’t always do that.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 months agoPer https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/, it’s been the case since 2004, so for about 19 and a half years…
minus-squarePetter1@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·7 months agoTelling someone that they are Old with saying they are old…
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 months agoSomething something don’t cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written…
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 months agoRight, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·7 months agoYou may not, but I need it. Data anxiety is real.
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Me trying to decompress a .tar file
Joke’s on you, .tar isn’t compression
That’s not going to stop me from getting confused every time I try!
You don’t need the v, it just means verbose and lists the extracted files.
You don’t need the z, it auto detects the compression
Yeah, I just tell our Linux newbies
tar xf, as in “extract file”, and that seems to stick perfectly well.That’s still kinda new. It didn’t always do that.
Per https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/, it’s been the case since 2004, so for about 19 and a half years…
Telling someone that they are Old with saying they are old…
Something something don’t cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written…
Right, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running
You may not, but I need it. Data anxiety is real.