Krafting to [email protected] • 1 year agothe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square194fedilinkarrow-up1943
arrow-up1943imagethe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldKrafting to [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square194fedilink
minus-squarecaseyweedermanlinkfedilink4•1 year agoThat’s not going to stop me from getting confused every time I try!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink18•1 year agoYou don’t need the v, it just means verbose and lists the extracted files.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•1 year agoYou don’t need the z, it auto detects the compression
minus-squareEpheralinkfedilink6•1 year agoYeah, I just tell our Linux newbies tar xf, as in “extract file”, and that seems to stick perfectly well.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•1 year agoPer https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/, it’s been the case since 2004, so for about 19 and a half years…
minus-squareBilleghlinkfedilink6•1 year agoRight, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•1 year agoTelling someone that they are Old with saying they are old…
minus-squareBilleghlinkfedilink4•1 year agoSomething something don’t cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written…
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.