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LazerFX ,

I always remember that it’s eXtract Ze File, tar -xzf… But I’ll be honest, I’ve not used it in years and years

Titou ,
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Tar -xvf

AffineConnection ,

Now do a standard pax command.

FiskFisk33 ,

tar --help

Korbs ,
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Well, bye everyone.

gravitas_deficiency ,

The fact that this thread contains, like, TONS of invalid invocations that people have been editing for correctness is fucking hilarious.

Also, QED 🤠

lambda ,
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tar --extract --file file.tar.gz

grrgyle ,

All those years of using nautilus have made me weak

PoolloverNathan ,

tar x

johannesvanderwhales ,

tar --help

mdurell ,

cpio is way worse

Emerald ,

tar -xzvf file.tar

alyth ,

That’s what I had in mind too. Tar’s arguments are really intuitive.

x - eXtract

z - use gZip

v - Verbose

f - File (requires the path as an argument)

UnculturedSwine ,

tar -cvzf /etc/

Edit: we’re dead :(

Barzaria ,

tar

MehBlah , (edited )

tar -zxvf yourmom.tgz /home/xkcd/yourmomnude/* This was wrong. I intended to be creating a file -zcvf.

brlemworld ,

tar --help

JargonWagon ,

That was my first thought too lol

grrgyle ,

Rofl me too twins

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