• zaphod@sopuli.xyz
    18·
    1 year ago

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

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

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

      • Ephera@lemmy.ml
        5·
        1 year ago

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

      • Billegh@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

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

          • Petter1@lemm.ee
            7·
            1 year ago

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

            • Billegh@lemmy.world
              4·
              1 year ago

              Something something don’t cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written…

          • Billegh@lemmy.world
            6·
            1 year ago

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