• @jj4211
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      87 months ago

      You don’t need the z, it auto detects the compression

      • Ephera
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        67 months ago

        Yeah, I just tell our Linux newbies tar xf, as in “extract file”, and that seems to stick perfectly well.

      • Billegh
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        27 months ago

        That’s still kinda new. It didn’t always do that.

            • Billegh
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              47 months ago

              Something something don’t cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written…

          • Billegh
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            67 months ago

            Right, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running

    • Billegh
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      87 months ago

      You may not, but I need it. Data anxiety is real.