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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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[–] [email protected] 75 points 6 months ago (1 children)

tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz

eXtract Zhe Vucking File

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sorry, it was Solaris - you just blew it up (the minus is invalid on many Unix versions of tar)

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[–] excitingburp 9 points 6 months ago

Inadvertent oracle attack.