That looks really cool. And finally a guide that knows -z is not necessary all the time.
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So a serious question from someone who can't remember console commands ever despite using them constantly.
Why are so many linux CLI commands set up with defaults that no one ever uses? Like if you pretty much always need -f, -v is often used, and --auto-compress is needed to recognize type by extension. Why aren't those the defaults to just using tar?
A lot of applications I find are like this too, they don't come with defaults that work or that anyone would ever use.
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Damn, I'm using the "tape archiver" (this is what tar means) since I installed HPUX8 in the 90s, from tape, yes...
daily-standup.png eh... :)
Who is taking pics of the standup.. :)
Or -I 'compress-command' -cf ... if not supported.
Nowaday I have ChatGPT spew me command. I usually do a quick validation before running. Nevertheless, most of simple operations are correct so I don't need to.
I then note the command to my persional gist cheatsheet. Next time, since the command is "cached", I'll be able to be productive quicker.
So much better than googling.
OMG always assumed that -c always stands for "compress" and I always placed .gz at the end to remember to place -x when extracting
Do more like this (・へ・)
great, now how do I use it together with the 'feather' command?
Don't you have to specify the compression algorithm when extracting? I always use tar -xzf for gzip files and if I remove -z it just fails.
I've been using only xf for a long time now. Don't remember ever getting an error from it in the last years. Maybe tar can now check the magic number or something to figure out what the format is?
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