Krafting to linuxmemes@lemmy.world • 27 days agothe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square198fedilinkarrow-up1933arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1924arrow-down1imagethe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldKrafting to linuxmemes@lemmy.world • 27 days agomessage-square198fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@caseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilink4•26 days agoThat’s not going to stop me from getting confused every time I try!
minus-square@zaphod@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilink18•26 days agoYou don’t need the v, it just means verbose and lists the extracted files.
minus-square@jj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink8•26 days agoYou don’t need the z, it auto detects the compression
minus-squareEpheralinkfedilink6•26 days agoYeah, I just tell our Linux newbies tar xf, as in “extract file”, and that seems to stick perfectly well.
minus-square@jj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink5•26 days agoPer https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/, it’s been the case since 2004, so for about 19 and a half years…
minus-square@Petter1@lemm.eecakelinkfedilink6•26 days agoTelling someone that they are Old with saying they are old…
minus-squareBilleghlinkfedilink4•26 days agoSomething something don’t cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written…
minus-squareBilleghlinkfedilink6•26 days agoRight, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running
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 may not, but I need it. Data anxiety is real.
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