Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck
I always remember that it's eXtract Ze File, tar -xzf... But I'll be honest, I've not used it in years and years
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Tar -xvf
Now do a standard pax command.
tar --help
Well, bye everyone.
The fact that this thread contains, like, TONS of invalid invocations that people have been editing for correctness is fucking hilarious.
Also, QED 🤠
tar --extract --file file.tar.gz
All those years of using nautilus have made me weak
tar x
tar --help
cpio is way worse
tar -xzvf file.tar
That's what I had in mind too. Tar's arguments are really intuitive.
x - eXtract
z - use gZip
v - Verbose
f - File (requires the path as an argument)
tar -cvzf /etc/
Edit: we're dead :(
tar
tar -zxvf yourmom.tgz /home/xkcd/yourmomnude/* This was wrong. I intended to be creating a file -zcvf.
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)
The bomb said tar.
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.
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