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    [–] eager_eagle 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (9 children)

    I use the command line every day, but can't be bothered with all the compression options of tar and company.

    zip -r thing.zip things/ and unzip thing.zip are temptingly more straightforward.

    Need more compression? zip -r -9 thing.zip things/. Need a faster option? Use a smaller digit.

    [–] UniversalFlamingo 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)
    tar czf thing.tgz things/
    tar xzf thing.tgz
    
    [–] eager_eagle 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    yes, and you still need zhe mnemonics

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    There’s gotta be a buncha tools that Clippy into the terminal to say “did you mean ____?” right? Including some new ones where they trained/fine-tuned a language model on man pages?

    Interesting it’s not the most popular thing to use a GUI and use shortcuts for everything you want to do while still having the option to click through a menu or wizard for whatever you haven’t memorized. I suppose the power and speed of the command line are difficult to match if you introduce anything else, and if you spend time using a user interface that’s time you can’t spend honing your command line skills.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

    There's thefuck, but it hasn't given me good suggestions.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

    tar xf things.tar.gz/bz2/etc Should be enough to extract. It can usually figure out the compression automatically.

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