What is your LEAST favorite command?
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Command Line Magic (climagic@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 20:19:30 JST Command Line Magic -
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Roy Tam (roytam1@miniwa.moe)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 20:19:25 JST Roy Tam @icpmoles @niconiconi @climagic in old UNIXes, you can only able to run `gzip -dc your.tar.gz|tar -xf -` (and hope your tar doesn't use some format that it doesn't support) -
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Iacopo Moles (icpmoles@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 20:19:27 JST Iacopo Moles @niconiconi @climagic I have to admit that I'm too spoiled by the unzip syntax and that always going with the first google result™ doesn't help with the memorization :blobsweats:
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Iacopo Moles (icpmoles@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 20:19:29 JST Iacopo Moles @climagic tar -fsdvbfvbjjifsrhjj archive.tar.gz
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niconiconi (niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 20:19:29 JST niconiconi @icpmoles@mastodon.social @climagic@mastodon.social Modern tar are the easiest-to-use Unix programs, automatic format detection has been a supported feature since 10 years ago by GNU tar, and even libarchive's BSD tar supports it. tar -xf is almost the only command I use. Those obsolete tar tutorials are a tremendous waste of time.
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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 06:19:00 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: @niconiconi @climagic @icpmoles Even heirloom tar has format detection for bzip2 and gzip (checkzip function).
And copyright notices indicates last modification in 2003, so most of the people reading about how to use tar were likely born *after* tar got auto-detection. -
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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 06:25:14 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: @climagic info
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