Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck
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Anyone else make an untar.sh?
tar - - help
In the true spirit of UNIX, it’s
tar -hF
tar -?,-his dereference or smth.It’s
tar --helpon my system 💥GNU switched to long command switches a while ago. Try bsdtar, it’s still just -h.
They kept the short ones for the actual extract/compress commands though, for compatibility reasons I presume.
You just killed us all by putting a space between the dashes
Or by using gnu style options on potentially bad tar
Fuckin autocorrect was the death of us all.
tar --version
Or is it -v
Depends. Short options are probably safer if the particular version and flavor of tar are unknown.
-v is verbose
I guess
man taris cheating, but it is a command involving tar. Not a command using tar, but a tar command…It didn’t say you could only enter one try, just that you had 10 seconds. The man page should give you something
I suppose
tar --helpwould technically be a valid invoking of the binary itself ifman tardoesn’tBut it would not work on older non-GNU versions of tar.
GNU introduced the “–foo” style long options, and it was a long time before Unix versions began adopting them.
I hitched my horse to just what I consider the basics–zip and unzip–and that has made it easy for me. But I’ve been stuck on those.
Extract anything:
tar xf <archive_file>Create a tbz2 archive:
tar cjf <archive_file.tbz2> <stuff to put in it>(And tossing in a
-vis pretty universal, if that’s your thing.)Some day, instead of commenting on a
redditLemmy post, I think I’ll Google how to tell it to use.xz.Ok, you know what? Today is finally that day. It’s just capital
-Jinstead of lower-case-j! That’s easy enough to remember, I guess.Stay by the phone always. We may need you to defuse a bomb someday.
Never thought I’d learn how to use
taron a meme post.Memes are one of the best source for Linux info 👍.
tar cJf file.tar.xz /path/to/file
tar xJf file.tar.xz /path/to/file.tar.xz -C /path/to/untar
is not very hard to remember
Unless you use it daily, I think that’s something I’d struggle with memorising, I’d just alias it tbh along with ls options
tar -czvf tar_name.tar.gz ./File not found, now we are dead.
Sounds like an error message from a
valid tar command
Yep, have this one committed to memory. Though if it asked me to uncompress a tarball, then I’d be fucked
tar xcvf this_awesome_file.tgz
I think you want to remove the
cbecause that means “create” an archive, and you’re missing azwhich applies gzip decompression/compressionI suppose it is tar version dependent, but on any recent Linux version I have used, you can just tar xvf <tar_name.tar.{z,gz,xz,etc}> and it will automatically figure out if it is compressed, what tools were used to compress it, and how to decompress it.
But you are right, x and c are mutually exclusive.
I even read this aloud in my head as “CREATE ZE VUCKING FILE” in a particularly bad German accent same as over 20 years ago when a friend I worked for drilled it in my head.
Read it in tf2 medics voice
I didn’t realize that was my default German voice in my head. Thx
I just can recall
tar xvzfbut can’t even remember what it’s supposed to do.eXtract, Verbose, gZip, File.
Not sure why it doesn’t need the dash though.
I always learnt it as Xtract Zee File and to make a tar ball, you want to Compress Zee File
The dash used to be how to could tell how long someone had been using tar. If they started with Linux, they probably use a dash. If they started on a UNIX variant, they probably don’t. Either way, the dash isn’t needed.
Also recently learned that recent versions of tar will autodetect compression. So for extraction, you just need “tar xf “
Sacrilege.
Sudo halt -fn
tar, the tape archiver, I used it with tape, early 90s
Somehow, idk why. This one is stuck in my head:
tar -zxvf filename.tar.gztar xzvf
eXtract Ze Vucking File
I have to do this command often at work and I can never remember the letters perfectly. This is actually useful, thanks!
Same, never used a mnemonic for it or anything, just
zxvf
Like it’s any other word
z=zip (default in most tar), x=eXtract, v=verbose (not needed in most cases), f=target
verbose … not needed?
If the words don’t happen how can I trust computer magic?
Yeah, how do I know that the PC isn’t slacking?
Monitor the room temperature.
The bomb runs AIX. I’m sorry, you’re dead
tar zxvf filename.tar.gz file?Nope,
tardoesn’t handle compression on AIX. So it would be something likegzip -cd filename.tar.gz | tar xvf -Ugh.
Do people not use tab complete?
Found the person who’s never used tar :-P
There’s an easy mnemonic for that : Compress Ze Vucking File !
Always think about tar commands in your best German accent !
I’ve never had a problem remembering tar, but properly using PV, somehow I’m just not able to store that information in my brain.
tar -hBoom.
tar --helpfor anyone wonderingJust
tar, no arguments. Does nothing, still a valid command, no?Exit code 2 -> boom
tar: You must specify one of the '-Acdtrux', '--delete' or '--test-label' options Try 'tar --help' or 'tar --usage' for more information.
