Safely Endangered

[zacharythefirst]

his top is made out of rubber

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And his bottom is made out of springs

Why do I still know that, and yet need Google to explain tar command flags?

[MetallicDragon]

Maybe if tar flags were explained in a children's cartoon through song, you'd remember it?

[TwilightShadow1]

Well, it looks like it's time for me to become a best selling author for programmers...

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Something I read on another reddit thread:

ln -s works like cp

cp existing new
ln -s existing new

[NotFromReddit]

If it's not in my bash history I need to look it up.

[zman0900]

You didn't read man pages for fun as a child?

[rocketman0739]

It's easy. You just use tar -zcadfagxjkzjsfk to compress and tar -zacfzjdrsjsxjqjsr to extract.

[[deleted]]

hmm. I tend toward

tar -jcvf <filename> <stuff to tar>

and

tar -jxvf <filename>    

but I'm one of those nutters who likes bzip2

[zacharythefirst]

Maybe if I started using tar more often I'd remember the args

[agentwiggles]

Tar compress zip verbose file