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Old XKCD, still relevant (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 months ago by LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck

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[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 51 points 3 months ago (3 children)

tar -czvf tar_name.tar.gz ./

[–] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 47 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] RealPuyo@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Read it in tf2 medics voice

[–] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 4 points 3 months ago

I didn't realize that was my default German voice in my head. Thx

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

lol that’s honestly a great mnemonic

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yep, have this one committed to memory. Though if it asked me to uncompress a tarball, then I'd be fucked

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

tar xzvf this_awesome_file.tgz

… fixed. Apparently I can’t type.

[–] hallettj@leminal.space 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think you want to remove the c because that means "create" an archive, and you're missing a z which applies gzip decompression/compression

[–] _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I 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.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Yeap, apparently I can’t type. So, we’d all be dead anyway with that bomb.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

File not found, now we are dead.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Sounds like an error message from a valid tar command