That’s… Not a bad idea…
This is legitimately helpful. What on earth are the acronyms actually supposed to stand for?
- c = create
- z = use gzip
- f = file
- x = extract
An old meme was GYAHHHh.tar.gz which is basically the same thing but with Arnold.
A classic
Nooooo! One of my favourite XKCDs is now ruined!
LMAO
I think with GNU tar, tar xf works every timeEdit: I meant for all compression algorithms.EDIT 2: Fake news :)EDIT 3: idk man
Even with .gz? Might have to try it later because I’m curious. Thought you always needed the z flag for that.
Actually I just tried it again and seems like it works. Earlier when I replied to you, I was passing the .tar.gz file through a pipe.
If I provide the file normally just xz is enough to extract it. Very strange.
in ~/test took 2s ❯ ls 4.21.1.tar.gz in ~/test ❯ file 4.21.1.tar.gz 4.21.1.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 9185280 in ~/test ❯ tar xf 4.21.1.tar.gz in ~/test ❯ ls i3-4.21.1/ 4.21.1.tar.gz in ~/test ❯ ls i3-4.21.1 | head AnyEvent-I3/ contrib/ debian/ docs/ etc/ i3-config-wizard/ i3-dump-log/ i3-input/ i3-msg/ i3-nagbar/Example of failure:
in ~/test ❯ curl --silent -L 'https://github.com/i3/i3/archive/refs/tags/4.21.1.tar.gz' | tar xf - tar: Archive is compressed. Use -z option tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting nowJust tested,
tar -xf data.tar.gzdefinitely works on Fedora 37.Actually you are right. I just tested and the z flag is needed. Sorry about that.
I mean… c stands for create, x stands for extract. f stands for file. That’s literally what they mean lol.
You can just do xf though, Tar can auto detect compression.
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