My Cheat sheet for the Tar Command
arthur.pizza
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. It’s not uncommon that I’m tasked to work on a server that is kinda bare-bones. Running Linux locally means you can choose what terminal software works best for you but when given a random CentOS or AlmaLinux box you might be left with only legacy tools.

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

  • dressupgeekout@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 years 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!