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    the fear of missing out a better compression (lemmy.world)
    submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    You don't need the v, it just means verbose and lists the extracted files.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    You don't need the z, it auto detects the compression

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

    Yeah, I just tell our Linux newbies tar xf, as in "extract file", and that seems to stick perfectly well.

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

    That's still kinda new. It didn't always do that.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Per https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/, it's been the case since 2004, so for about 19 and a half years...

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    Telling someone that they are Old with saying they are old…

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

    Something something don't cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written...

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

    Right, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

    You may not, but I need it. Data anxiety is real.