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tar -vczfx123 ought to do it (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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img title="I don't know what's worse--the fact that after 15 years of using tar I still can't keep the flags straight, or that after 15 years of technological advancement I'm still mucking with tar flags that were 15 years old when I started."

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[–] owatnext 32 points 8 months ago (2 children)

tar xvf somearchive.tar

Is that right? )= I'm scared I lost.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

user@server:~> tar xvf somearchive.tar

tar: somearchive.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory

tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

[–] owatnext 33 points 8 months ago

Scheiße...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Yep that's valid.