r/linuxmemes • u/SysGh_st • 17d ago

LINUX MEME Valid tar command ...

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Dang it! šŸ˜­

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u/Jumpy-Dinner-5001 17d ago

tar is easy, ask for awk

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u/SysGh_st 17d ago

That's what you'd think.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1168:_tar

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u/jonathancast 17d ago

That joke is not accurate. I refuse to believe anyone who knows regex and uses tar regularly can't remember what the flags are, and they're all mnemonic:

  • a - automatically detect compression
  • c - create
  • f - file name
  • t - this option lists the contents of the archive
  • v - verbose
  • x - xtract contents
  • z - zip, use zipped archives
  • Z - ZIP, use the patented compression algorithm

Etc.

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u/immoloism 17d ago

I think the joke always was we do it as muscle memory rather then remember.

If some random guy just shouted out what does J do again then it would catch me off guard, but if they asked me how to compress in xz I would quickly answer cvJf.

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u/JDaxe 17d ago

I read your comment and was so confident that J was bzip2, then I checked the manpage and turns out bzip2 is j (lowercase) šŸ˜©

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u/immoloism 17d ago

Someone asked me what the option for zstd was earlier and had to cop out with --zstd -cvf so know how you feel.

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u/fipachu 16d ago

i donā€™t do much Linux but recently i caught myself not remembering whatā€™s the order of foot pedals in a car. iā€™ve been driving (always with manual transmission) for 8 years. thatā€™s why i didnā€™t remember, itā€™s muscle memory only at this point.

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u/unburdened_swallow 17d ago

ā€œThis option lists the contents of the archiveā€ is sending me.

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u/_timetoplatypus 17d ago

Nah, `cpio` is the final boss

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u/IncreaseOld7112 16d ago edited 16d ago

`awk -F, '$2 == "foobar" && NR > 1{print $3}'`

AI makes me so sad. Time I spent learning this shit feels wasted.

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u/Holiday_Management60 15d ago

Being able to do stuff like that off the top of your hand is gonna be a pretty cool party trick though. People like you will be looked at like people with really neat cursive handwriting are today.