I often make a lot of little cheat sheets that I often use as a quick reminder of the tools I use often enough that they can find there way into my daily workflow, but sometimes I need a little refresher.

Today’s refresher: tar

  • simsym
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    31 year ago

    Love this! I find myself doing this a lot as well but usually just searching for pages like yours.

    Small feedback, I think it may be useful to have a full recap of the commands listed again at the end so they aren’t scattered throughout the page only but otherwise I think this was a great read!

  • @dressupgeekout@lemmy.ml
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    31 year ago

    Mmmpf, tar czf archive.tar.xz directory is Just Wrong to me. The “z” means gzip! Use “J” if you meant to use xz compression!

    • Helix 🧬
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      1 year ago

      Or use tar caf to have it autodetect the type based on the filename.