Old XKCD, still relevant

tar --help

tar -h

I do tax -xvf filename

tar -czvf tar_name.tar.gz ./

tar --version

You're welcome

tar --version

Somehow, idk why. This one is stuck in my head:

tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz

tar -xzf stands for tar eXtract Ze Filez

tar --help

tar --version

There's an easy mnemonic for that : Compress Ze Vucking File !

How does it verify the command is valid? Does it run what I enter?

If so, just give it an infinite loop followed by some attempt at a tar command:

while true; do :; done; tar -xyz

I'd like to know if there are any XKCDs that are no longer relevant.

I hitched my horse to just what I consider the basics--zip and unzip--and that has made it easy for me. But I've been stuck on those.

Extract anything:

tar xf <archive_file>

Create a tbz2 archive:

tar cjf <archive_file.tbz2> <stuff to put in it>

(And tossing in a -v is pretty universal, if that's your thing.)

Some day, instead of commenting on a reddit Lemmy post, I think I'll Google how to tell it to use .xz.

Ok, you know what? Today is finally that day. It's just capital -J instead of lower-case -j! That's easy enough to remember, I guess.

tar -cvzf /etc/

Edit: we're dead :(

tar -xvf or we all kill

Actually this reminds me, what is the deal with tar command recommendations to use or not use dash? I know GNU tar accepts both (e.g.) tar xvf file.tar and tar -xvf file.tar, but at some points people were like "NO! Don't use the dash! It's going to maybe cause issues somewhere, who knows!" and I was like "OK". Something to do with people up designing the Unix specs?

Remember: Just tell tar to Xtract Z File.

I just can recall tar xvzf but can't even remember what it's supposed to do.

I guess man tar is cheating, but it is a command involving tar. Not a command using tar, but a tar command...

Sudo halt -fn

tar -xzvf file.tar

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.

tar

tar cJf file.tar.xz /path/to/file

tar xJf file.tar.xz /path/to/file.tar.xz -C /path/to/untar

is not very hard to remember

tar --help

tar -cf file.tar directory/

| man tar

tar x

tar -zxvf yourmom.tgz /home/xkcd/yourmomnude/* This was wrong. I intended to be creating a file -zcvf.

Do people not use tab complete?

tar, the tape archiver, I used it with tape, early 90s

I just use ouch

I've never had a problem remembering tar, but properly using PV, somehow I'm just not able to store that information in my brain.

The fact that this thread contains, like, TONS of invalid invocations that people have been editing for correctness is fucking hilarious.

Also, QED 🤠

I memorized tar -cavf file.tar.bz2 directory/* and tar -xavf file.tar.bz2

cpio is way worse

All those years of using nautilus have made me weak

Anyone else make an untar.sh?

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

tar --extract --file file.tar.gz

Well, bye everyone.

Now do a standard pax command.

Tar -xvf