1y ago

the fear of missing out a better compression

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Oblig. XKCD:
- tar -h
  Edit: wtf... It's actually tar -?. I'm so disappointed
  
  boom
- tar eXtactZheVeckingFile
  
  Me trying to decompress a .tar file
  
  Joke's on you, .tar isn't compression
  
  That's not going to stop me from getting confused every time I try!
  
  You don't need the v, it just means verbose and lists the extracted files.
  
  You may not, but I need it. Data anxiety is real.
  
  You don't need the z, it auto detects the compression
  
  Yeah, I just tell our Linux newbies tar xf, as in "extract file", and that seems to stick perfectly well.
  
  That's still kinda new. It didn't always do that.
  
  Per https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/, it's been the case since 2004, so for about 19 and a half years...
  
  Telling someone that they are Old with saying they are old…
  
  Something something don't cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written...
  
  Right, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running
- tar -xzf
  (read with German accent:) extract the files
  
  Ixtrekt ze feils
  
  German here and no shit - that is how I remember that since the first time someone made that comment
  
  Same. Also German btw 😄
  
  Not German but I remember the comment but not the right letters so I would have killed us all.
  
  That’s so good I wish I needed to memorize the command
- tar -uhhhmmmfuckfuckfuck
- The Fish shell shows me just the past command with tar
  So I don't need to remember strange flags
  
  I use zsh and love the fish autocomplete so I use this:
  https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
  Also have fzf for ctrl + r to fuzzy find previous commands.
  I believe it comes with oh-my-zsh, just has to be enabled in plugins and itjustworks™
- man tar
  you never said I can't run a command before it.
- without looking, what’s the flag to push over ssh with compression
  
  scp
  
  not compressed by default
- That's yet another great joke that GNU ruined.

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