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minus-squarecaseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up27·1 month agoMe trying to decompress a .tar file
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoJoke’s on you, .tar isn’t compression
minus-squarecaseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoThat’s not going to stop me from getting confused every time I try!
minus-squarezaphod@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·1 month agoYou don’t need the v, it just means verbose and lists the extracted files.
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 month agoYou may not, but I need it. Data anxiety is real.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 month agoYou don’t need the z, it auto detects the compression
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoYeah, I just tell our Linux newbies tar xf, as in “extract file”, and that seems to stick perfectly well.
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoThat’s still kinda new. It didn’t always do that.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month 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-up6·1 month agoRight, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running
minus-squarePetter1@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoTelling someone that they are Old with saying they are old…
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoSomething something don’t cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written…
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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 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…
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…