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the fear of missing out a better compression (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You don't need the z, it auto detects the compression

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I just tell our Linux newbies tar xf, as in "extract file", and that seems to stick perfectly well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's still kinda new. It didn't always do that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Per https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/, it's been the case since 2004, so for about 19 and a half years...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Telling someone that they are Old with saying they are old…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Something something don't cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Right, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running