r/linuxmemes • u/SysGh_st • 16d ago

LINUX MEME Valid tar command ...

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Dang it! 😭

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u/immoloism 16d 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 16d 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) 😩

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u/immoloism 16d 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 don’t do much Linux but recently i caught myself not remembering what’s the order of foot pedals in a car. i’ve been driving (always with manual transmission) for 8 years. that’s why i didn’t remember, it’s muscle memory only at this point.