That’s… Not a bad idea…
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.
This is legitimately helpful. What on earth are the acronyms actually supposed to stand for?
- c = create
- z = use gzip
- f = file
- x = extract
Nooooo! One of my favourite XKCDs is now ruined!
LMAO
An old meme was GYAHHHh.tar.gz which is basically the same thing but with Arnold.
A classic
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.
Just 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.
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 now
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