• @jj4211
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    86 months ago

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

    • Ephera
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      66 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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      26 months ago

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

          • Billegh
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            46 months ago

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

        • Billegh
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          66 months ago

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