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minus-squarejanAkali@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoI don’t understand. How is it hard to remember: “eXtract File” = “tar xf …”? If tar is gZipped - it’s “tar xzf …”. I don’t think I’ve ever seen tarball that wouldn’t work with one of these two commands.
minus-squareProgrammer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoUsually the distro has tar in automatic and automatically detects which compression flag to use so tar xf ... usually just works
minus-squarexigoi@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoJust use tar xaf to auto-detect the format. (Mnemonic: “extract a file”)
minus-square0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·11 months agoeXtract Zi Files - xzf
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Xctract zee file
xzf
I don’t understand.
How is it hard to remember: “eXtract File” = “tar xf …”? If tar is gZipped - it’s “tar xzf …”.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen tarball that wouldn’t work with one of these two commands.
Usually the distro has tar in automatic and automatically detects which compression flag to use so
tar xf ...usually just worksJust use
tar xafto auto-detect the format. (Mnemonic: “extract a file”)eXtract Zi Files - xzf