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comment by kyrvin
kyrvin  ·  3340 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: XKCD: Git

Reminds me of xkcd 1168: tar

It amazes me that I've been using Arch Linux for almost 2 years now and I still have to look up which tar command extracts AUR packages (it's "tar xvzf" by the way, I had to look it up, but I'm pretty sure I'll remember it this time).





bhrgunatha  ·  3340 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Modern versions of tar support auto-detect so just 'tar -xf' will usually do the right thing.