• @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    tar -xzvf file.tar.gz

    I remember the flags with a very silly mnemonic.

    extract zee veryimportant files

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      eXtract Zee Vucking Files

      Also works for the reverse:

      Compress Zee Vucking Files

      (Swap Zee for All if you want it to auto detect compression)

    • TotallyNotCommunistOP
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      1 year ago

      Is there a difference between using -xzvf and -xf? I always just chose the shortest one, I hope it doesn’t matter much, my muscle memory is already too high

    • Drew Belloc
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      01 year ago

      I just created a python script so i can use [openarch {file extension} {file}]

  • @tar_xf
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    31 year ago

    I’m on it.

  • @gaybear
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    9 months ago

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