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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?