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[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (2 children)

tar xvf somearchive.tar

Is that right? )= I'm scared I lost.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

user@server:~> tar xvf somearchive.tar

tar: somearchive.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory

tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Yep that's valid.