Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck
I guess man tar is cheating, but it is a command involving tar. Not a command using tar, but a tar command...
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I suppose tar --help would technically be a valid invoking of the binary itself if man tar doesn't
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Sudo halt -fn
I know tar zxf and xjf off by heart. I probably do 100x as many extracts as creates. Tar is a stupidly antiquated command though.
Why remember/include the algorithm? Tar can infer that. It's just bsdtar xf filename.* for everything. (bsdtar handles .zip as well)
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tar cJf file.tar.xz /path/to/file
tar xJf file.tar.xz /path/to/file.tar.xz -C /path/to/untar
is not very hard to remember
Unless you use it daily, I think that's something I'd struggle with memorising, I'd just alias it tbh along with ls options
tar
tar x
tar --help
tar -cf file.tar directory/
tar --help
Do people not use tab complete?
tar -zxvf yourmom.tgz /home/xkcd/yourmomnude/* This was wrong. I intended to be creating a file -zcvf.
tar, the tape archiver, I used it with tape, early 90s
I've never had a problem remembering tar, but properly using PV, somehow I'm just not able to store that information in my brain.
I just use ouch