img title=“I don’t know what’s worse–the fact that after 15 years of using tar I still can’t keep the flags straight, or that after 15 years of technological advancement I’m still mucking with tar flags that were 15 years old when I started.”
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A little trick I learned on here was to imagine yourself as a little evil man saying “Extract ze files!” in a German accent. Extract ze files >>> xzf.
Wouldn’t tar --help suffice? Afaik, it returns exit code 0.
tar xzvf file.tar.gzI got it memorized after installing gentoo over and over again from stage 3 back in 2005
