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minus-squarejanAkali@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down4·9 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-squaremumblerfish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months agoNever encountered a bz2 tar? Then the flag is j.
minus-squareProgrammer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 months 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-up2·9 months agoYeah it’s many years that I haven’t had to specify z, j etc.
minus-squarexigoi@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months 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 xaf
to auto-detect the format. (Mnemonic: “extract a file”)