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