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    Old XKCD, still relevant (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
    submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck

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    [–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    tar -czvf tar_name.tar.gz ./

    [–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I even read this aloud in my head as "CREATE ZE VUCKING FILE" in a particularly bad German accent same as over 20 years ago when a friend I worked for drilled it in my head.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Read it in tf2 medics voice

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

    I didn't realize that was my default German voice in my head. Thx

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    lol that’s honestly a great mnemonic

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Yep, have this one committed to memory. Though if it asked me to uncompress a tarball, then I'd be fucked

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    tar xzvf this_awesome_file.tgz

    … fixed. Apparently I can’t type.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I think you want to remove the c because that means "create" an archive, and you're missing a z which applies gzip decompression/compression

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I suppose it is tar version dependent, but on any recent Linux version I have used, you can just tar xvf <tar_name.tar.{z,gz,xz,etc}> and it will automatically figure out if it is compressed, what tools were used to compress it, and how to decompress it.

    But you are right, x and c are mutually exclusive.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    Yeap, apparently I can’t type. So, we’d all be dead anyway with that bomb.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    QED 🫠

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    File not found, now we are dead.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

    Sounds like an error message from a valid tar command