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minus-squareoleorun@real.lemmy.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up173arrow-down1·edit-222 days agoOblig. XKCD:
minus-squareSpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up207·edit-222 days agotar -h Edit: wtf… It’s actually tar -?. I’m so disappointed
minus-squarecaseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up21·22 days agoMe trying to decompress a .tar file
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 days agoJoke’s on you, .tar isn’t compression
minus-squarecaseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 days agoThat’s not going to stop me from getting confused every time I try!
minus-squarezaphod@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·21 days agoYou don’t need the v, it just means verbose and lists the extracted files.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·21 days agoYou don’t need the z, it auto detects the compression
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·21 days agoYeah, I just tell our Linux newbies tar xf, as in “extract file”, and that seems to stick perfectly well.
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·21 days agoThat’s still kinda new. It didn’t always do that.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 days agoPer https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/, it’s been the case since 2004, so for about 19 and a half years…
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·21 days agoRight, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running
minus-squarePetter1@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 days agoTelling someone that they are Old with saying they are old…
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 days agoSomething something don’t cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written…
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·21 days agoYou may not, but I need it. Data anxiety is real.
minus-squaresmiletolerantly@awful.systemslinkfedilinkarrow-up53·22 days agotar -xzf (read with German accent:) extract the files
minus-squareichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·22 days agoGerman here and no shit - that is how I remember that since the first time someone made that comment
minus-squarelightnsfw@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 days agoNot German but I remember the comment but not the right letters so I would have killed us all.
minus-squarebrbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·22 days agoThat’s so good I wish I needed to memorize the command
minus-squareCaptainBasculin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·22 days agoman tar you never said I can’t run a command before it.
minus-squareWaffelson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·21 days agoThe Fish shell shows me just the past command with tar So I don’t need to remember strange flags
minus-squarenaught@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·21 days agoI 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™
minus-squareJoYo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 days agowithout looking, what’s the flag to push over ssh with compression
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down16·22 days agoThat’s yet another great joke that GNU ruined.
Oblig. XKCD:
tar -h
Edit: wtf… It’s actually
tar -?
. I’m so disappointedboom
tar eXtactZheVeckingFile
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…
Right, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running
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…
You may not, but I need it. Data anxiety is real.
tar -xzf
(read with German accent:) extract the files
Ixtrekt ze feils
German here and no shit - that is how I remember that since the first time someone made that comment
Same. Also German btw 😄
Not German but I remember the comment but not the right letters so I would have killed us all.
That’s so good I wish I needed to memorize the command
tar -uhhhmmmfuckfuckfuck
man tar
you never said I can’t run a command before it.
The Fish shell shows me just the past command with tar
So I don’t need to remember strange flags
I use zsh and love the fish autocomplete so I use this:
https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
Also have
fzf
forctrl + r
to fuzzy find previous commands.I believe it comes with oh-my-zsh, just has to be enabled in plugins and itjustworks™
without looking, what’s the flag to push over ssh with compression
scp
not compressed by default
That’s yet another great joke that GNU ruined.