Krafting@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 27 days agothe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square198fedilinkarrow-up1910arrow-down19file-text
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minus-squarecaseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up26·27 days agoMe trying to decompress a .tar file
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·27 days agoJoke’s on you, .tar isn’t compression
minus-squarecaseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·26 days agoThat’s not going to stop me from getting confused every time I try!
minus-squarezaphod@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·27 days agoYou don’t need the v, it just means verbose and lists the extracted files.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·27 days agoYou don’t need the z, it auto detects the compression
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·26 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-up2·27 days agoThat’s still kinda new. It didn’t always do that.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·26 days agoPer https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/, it’s been the case since 2004, so for about 19 and a half years…
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·26 days agoRight, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running
minus-squarePetter1@lemm.eecakelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·26 days agoTelling someone that they are Old with saying they are old…
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·26 days agoSomething something don’t cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written…
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·27 days agoYou may not, but I need it. Data anxiety is real.
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.