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Old XKCD, still relevant (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 4 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] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Why remember/include the algorithm? Tar can infer that. It's just bsdtar xf filename.* for everything. (bsdtar handles .zip as well)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The bomb said tar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes, and tar works the same, it just doesn't handle zip files.

And even if we're pedantic: bsdtar is Arch Linux’ executable name for a port of the tar command that is shipped by BSDs, so it's also tar.