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minus-squaremexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 年前-xf is all you need Also most file managers handle it easily
minus-squarejanAkali@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down4·2 年前I don’t understand. How is it hard to remember: “eXtract File” = “tar xf …”? If tar is gZipped - it’s “tar xzf …”. I don’t think I’ve ever seen tarball that wouldn’t work with one of these two commands.
minus-squareProgrammer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 年前Usually the distro has tar in automatic and automatically detects which compression flag to use so tar xf ... usually just works
minus-squarechellomere@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 年前Yeah it’s many years that I haven’t had to specify z, j etc.
minus-squaremumblerfish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 年前Never encountered a bz2 tar? Then the flag is j.
minus-squarexigoi@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 年前Just use tar xaf to auto-detect the format. (Mnemonic: “extract a file”)
minus-square0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·2 年前eXtract Zi Files - xzf
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Xctract zee file
xzf
-xf is all you need
Also most file managers handle it easily
I don’t understand.
How is it hard to remember: “eXtract File” = “tar xf …”? If tar is gZipped - it’s “tar xzf …”.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen tarball that wouldn’t work with one of these two commands.
Usually the distro has tar in automatic and automatically detects which compression flag to use so
tar xf ...usually just worksYeah it’s many years that I haven’t had to specify z, j etc.
Never encountered a bz2 tar? Then the flag is
j.Just use
tar xafto auto-detect the format. (Mnemonic: “extract a file”)eXtract Zi Files - xzf