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Wow, really? Honestly I've never used the z or j flags, I could not even tell you what they do. I use `tar caf whatever.(txz|tgz|tar.lz|tar.lzo) /path/to/files`
by x0 11y ago
Wow, really? Honestly I've never used the z or j flags, I could not even tell you what they do. I use `tar caf whatever.(txz|tgz|tar.lz|tar.lzo) /path/to/files` to create, and just `tar xf whatever` to extract.
- teach 11y agoSome of us have been using Unix tools a very long time. For example, I'm pretty sure I started using tar and gzip in 1995.