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minus-squarejanAkali@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down4·1 year 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-squaremumblerfish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoNever encountered a bz2 tar? Then the flag is j.
minus-squareProgrammer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoUsually the distro has tar in automatic and automatically detects which compression flag to use so tar xf ... usually just works
minus-squarechellomere@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoYeah it’s many years that I haven’t had to specify z, j etc.
minus-squarexigoi@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoJust use tar xaf to auto-detect the format. (Mnemonic: “extract a file”)
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.
Never encountered a bz2 tar? Then the flag is
j.Usually the distro has tar in automatic and automatically detects which compression flag to use so
tar xf ...usually just worksYeah it’s many years that I haven’t had to specify z, j etc.
Just use
tar xafto auto-detect the format. (Mnemonic: “extract a file”)