Reordered, and we can have [v]erbosely e[x]tract g[z]ip [f]ile, or tar vxzf [file]
I find it more difficult to remember other options. Might stick better if pronouncing the g in gzip similarly as GNU insists GNU be pronounced, with a hard g—never really tried it, but sounds a little funny. Actually, I think I first remembered it as g sounding like the, making for extract the zip file, but with a soft g; I felt the former put too much emphasis on a letter not used as an option.
Again this old myth that using
taris possible without looking up commands every time. It’s been debunked many timeseXtract Ze File
tf is in the file?
xzvf or nothing
I just do xzf. No point for verbose.
but how am i supposed to remember that?
eXtract Ze Vucking File?
Ja mein freund.
e[x]tract; g[z]ip; [v]erbose; [f]ile
Reordered, and we can have [v]erbosely e[x]tract g[z]ip [f]ile, or
tar vxzf [file]I find it more difficult to remember other options. Might stick better if pronouncing the g in
gzipsimilarly as GNU insists GNU be pronounced, with a hard g—never really tried it, but sounds a little funny. Actually, I think I first remembered it as g sounding like the, making for extract the zip file, but with a soft g; I felt the former put too much emphasis on a letter not used as an option.Opened the thread to write this. Of course it’s already there.
czvf?
Pretty sure tar is some quantum artifact that changes it’s parameters every time you need to use it.
I can do it if what I want to do is to extract a .tar.gz or .tar.bz2. Anything else is a myth