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the fear of missing out a better compression (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Krafting to c/linuxmemes
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You don't need the v, it just means verbose and lists the extracted files.

[–] jj4211 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You don't need the z, it auto detects the compression

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

Yeah, I just tell our Linux newbies tar xf, as in "extract file", and that seems to stick perfectly well.

[–] bhamlin 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's still kinda new. It didn't always do that.

[–] jj4211 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Per https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/, it's been the case since 2004, so for about 19 and a half years...

[–] bhamlin 6 points 2 weeks ago

Right, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running

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

Telling someone that they are Old with saying they are old…

[–] bhamlin 4 points 2 weeks ago

Something something don't cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written...

[–] bhamlin 8 points 2 weeks ago

You may not, but I need it. Data anxiety is real.