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Easy way to remember extracting with tar is "eXtract Zee Files" -xzf.
by shiftpgdn 7y ago
Easy way to remember extracting with tar is "eXtract Zee Files" -xzf.
- efreak 7y agoI no longer have issues with tar since I found out that most systems I use don't need the compression format anymore, and are happy to figure it out themselves. Not sure if it works with compressing or not (I generally use 7z or zip), but you can just `tar -x[v]f` on anything, regardless of file extension, and tar will extract anything it supports.