April Kingbig middle finger to the universe, but especially to the colleague who made my bones hurt by pointing out that the `z` in `tar -xvzf` hasn’t been needed since version tar 1.15, released in 2004.
JoYo-c tho, right?
systemd-jaded.timer
Gabriel Pettier@leftpaddotpy @JoYo @april @float13 you would assume so, but no, it's not needed either, if you use the `a` flag, see the man. :)
Gabriel Pettier (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] yes, it's unnecessary, and even when creating an archive, you can use the `a` flag to autodetect format. $ tar acf directory{.tar.gz,} $ tar acf directory{.tar.bz2,} $ tar acf directory{.tar.xz,} $ file directory.* directory.tar.bz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k directory.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 28272640 directory.tar.xz: XZ compressed data, checksum CRC64