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minus-squarezaphod@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·6 months agoYou don’t need the v, it just means verbose and lists the extracted files.
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·6 months agoYou may not, but I need it. Data anxiety is real.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·6 months agoYou don’t need the z, it auto detects the compression
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 months agoYeah, I just tell our Linux newbies tar xf, as in “extract file”, and that seems to stick perfectly well.
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoThat’s still kinda new. It didn’t always do that.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·6 months agoPer https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/, it’s been the case since 2004, so for about 19 and a half years…
minus-squarePetter1@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·6 months agoTelling someone that they are Old with saying they are old…
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 months agoSomething something don’t cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written…
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 months agoRight, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running
You don’t need the v, it just means verbose and lists the extracted files.
You may not, but I need it. Data anxiety is real.
You don’t need the z, it auto detects the compression
Yeah, I just tell our Linux newbies
tar xf, as in “extract file”, and that seems to stick perfectly well.That’s still kinda new. It didn’t always do that.
Per https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/, it’s been the case since 2004, so for about 19 and a half years…
Telling someone that they are Old with saying they are old…
Something something don’t cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written…
Right, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running