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Matricariareply
feddit.de

tar -xzf (eXtract Ze File)

tar -czf (Compress Ze File)

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eyvindreply
lemmy.world

Mmmnnn z means (de)compress, c means create: -xf and -cf extract and create uncompressed tarballs. Also it’s far more complicated.

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Tangentially related. I'm being confusing for educational purposes, tar is impossible even if you know it.

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lemmy.world

For newbies that know from the top of their head what a cd-rom is...

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Joe_0237reply
lemmy.ml

Fair point. You can probably be 20 these days and not have really used CDs in your memory. Is this what getting old feels like?

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Speaking as someone that grew up with records, 8-tracks, and cassettes: yes, yes it is.

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It's also helpful to note that “shell builtins” don't typically have man pages (at least for BASH). You can find help on these commands by typing [builtin name] --help or looking in the shell's man page or info doc (no one told me when I was learning, so I got confused as to why some of the more common commands didn't have man pages)

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lemmy.world

Once when I was drunk it took me 5min to realise, that a cd rom is in fact a read only file system

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