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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."
tar -cvf CowsLookLikeMaps.tar CowsLookLikeMaps
I just remember zxvf, but if I have to do anything else then extract a tar.gz we’re fucked.
tldr tar | head -n 1
Yeah tar is easy. Regex on the other hand..
I can remember regex, but I need to check tar almost every time.
Regex, the write only language.
Nothing a .* can't solve
Oh jeez, I use regex at least 2-3 times a week. It's really not too bad for simple stuff and doing basic search and replace operations in text editors
7zz x *
Or just double click.
tar -xvf is the only one I know
And I think it was tar -cvf for creating .tar files?
I always liked dtrx (do the right extraction)
Btw, GNU tar has long options.
tar -h
I'll take my award in all ones please