• 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