Krafting@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 5 months agothe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square195fedilinkarrow-up1933arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1924arrow-down1external-linkthe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldKrafting@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square195fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·5 months agoYou don’t need the z, it auto detects the compression
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 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-up2·5 months agoThat’s still kinda new. It didn’t always do that.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 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-up7·5 months agoTelling someone that they are Old with saying they are old…
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoSomething something don’t cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written…
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 months agoRight, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running
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