Post AWkjNXNW2fAYc7wGUS by selea@social.linux.pizza
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(DIR) Post #AWkOXsKitA1BSlikKW by selea@social.linux.pizza
2023-06-16T11:21:39Z
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I dont remember who said it here on Mastodon, but that made me remember it.If you want to extract a tar.gz file you just download, just think in german.tar xzftar extract ze fileand if you want to create a .tar.gz archice:tar czf tar compress ze fileOfcourse you can add "v" in order to have it verbose :)#Linux
(DIR) Post #AWkPIPO0KZrLIORbU0 by cnx@larkspur.one
2023-06-16T11:30:09.951961Z
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It works in english too, @selea!tar xf # extract filetar cf # compress file
(DIR) Post #AWkQ2L3wjo2xCuxncW by thehatfox@mastodonapp.uk
2023-06-16T11:38:23Z
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@selea I remember a poster in an old computer lab from years ago that had something similar.tar xzvf"extract zee various files"tar czvf"compress zee various files"I think I read another variant in a Slashdot comment once too. I wonder where this originated?
(DIR) Post #AWkQHu9IZOiKMxtCRE by selea@social.linux.pizza
2023-06-16T11:41:11Z
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@thehatfox Good point, but some archives just have one file. Is there another word that could be used for that?
(DIR) Post #AWkQLpwe8tZeUNqXaq by selea@social.linux.pizza
2023-06-16T11:41:49Z
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@steffo The thing is that I dont remember that :p
(DIR) Post #AWkRZPvFn2nbn3Eb0C by AIaYYAle4i1uKmKpqy.gme@bofh.social
2023-06-16T11:55:37.481395Z
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@thehatfox @selea Definitely don’t want to use the v flag though if you’re ssh’d into a remote system. That will absolutely slow down the compression or extraction process since tar has to wait for the terminal buffer to clear. If you really want to see the verbose output of the operation, redirect stdout to a log file.Most people use xvf because they want to verify the paths in the tarball so they can kill the process if they need to.Just use tvf instead.The [t] stands for “test”.So….“test zee various files” or “tell [me about] zee various files”.
(DIR) Post #AWkSDBGlglfVvbG5GS by portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza
2023-06-16T12:02:43Z
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@seleaI usually do "a" (auto) instead of "z" (gzip) so it works for all compressions
(DIR) Post #AWkSTdd21BXkW1WGZs by danielsiepmann@friendica.daniel-siepmann.de
2023-06-16T11:26:48Z
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That's exactly how I as a German try to remember it.Sounds like it is harder for English natives?
(DIR) Post #AWkSTeo3dfxQAVgaP2 by selea@social.linux.pizza
2023-06-16T12:05:36Z
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@danielsiepmann I am half german, half swede;)
(DIR) Post #AWkidqagHLNgsZJHBw by paburu@social.linux.pizza
2023-06-16T15:06:48Z
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@selea I remember tar xzvf from the many, many times I had to install gentoo back in 2005, too much trial and error
(DIR) Post #AWkjNXNW2fAYc7wGUS by selea@social.linux.pizza
2023-06-16T15:15:02Z
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@portaloffreedom Oh thats really smart, I'll try that :)
(DIR) Post #AWkkyrM0pqwVEib15k by gigantos@social.linux.pizza
2023-06-16T15:33:02Z
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@selea personally I find it a lot easier to just remember the letters. x is extract, c is compress, t is test, v is verbose, z zlib, f is filename.I struggle a little with bzip2 and xz (don't know them), but also never use them as the extra compression time does not defend the saved space for me.
(DIR) Post #AWklK8PqawjkEZXCgy by etam@im-in.space
2023-06-16T15:36:48Z
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@selea To extract you can omit "z". Tar figures out how to decompress.To create archive use "a" - it tells tar to guess based on the filename.
(DIR) Post #AWkm2KNRU6sC4ZTyLo by brother@mastodon.melin.org
2023-06-16T15:44:52Z
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@selea in general you can omit the compression method. But that require you to know what the z (or j or whatever) stands for…
(DIR) Post #AWlDKBxoCZjhxCEebw by selea@social.linux.pizza
2023-06-16T20:50:39Z
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@brother Of course :)But I need to remember that ;)