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I’ve never understood that one. I realize it’s just a joke, but xvf/cfv (extract/compress, view, uh,. Ok I did have to look up f, which I think is file) and the

• Izkata 4y ago
  Though if you include the dash to use those as flags, the second one is wrong (it treats the "v" as the file name for "f"). Without the dash, the next positional argument is the file name. Examples: These do the same thing: tar cfv foo.tar a b c tar cvf foo.tar a b c tar -cvf foo.tar a b c This errors, trying to add foo.tar to archive v: tar -cfv foo.tar a b c
  • metadat 4y ago
    Correct, it's -cvf.
• joemi 4y ago
  Even easier: tar --help