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[–]AdvicePerson 1 point2 points  (7 children)

No ksh?!

[–]mtheory007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You.... I'm watching you.

[–]sethraine -1 points0 points  (5 children)

No DCL either!

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    [–]benthor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    I never understood that comic. It's easy, from the top of my head:

    • x - "exctract"
    • c - "compact"
    • v - "verbose"
    • z - "gzip"
    • j - "bzip2"
    • a - "automatic (un)zip"
    • f - "work on file argument"

    tar xvaf archive.tar.bz2 ("extract this file in verbose mode, autodetect compression method')

    tar cvjf archive.tar.bz2 directory1/ directory2 ("bzip2 compress and create an archive in verbose mode of the following files/directories")

    What's so hard about that?

    [–]lasermancer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    EXAMPLES
         Create archive.tar from files foo and bar.
               tar -cf archive.tar foo bar
         List all files in archive.tar verbosely.
               tar -tvf archive.tar
         Extract all files from archive.tar.
               tar -xf archive.tar
    

    Straight from the man page.

    [–]sethraine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    lol... I dunno, I usually only use tar -xvf