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Old XKCD, still relevant (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck

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[-] thejml@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

tar xzvf this_awesome_file.tgz

… fixed. Apparently I can’t type.

[-] hallettj@leminal.space 10 points 4 months ago

I think you want to remove the c because that means "create" an archive, and you're missing a z which applies gzip decompression/compression

[-] _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago

I suppose it is tar version dependent, but on any recent Linux version I have used, you can just tar xvf <tar_name.tar.{z,gz,xz,etc}> and it will automatically figure out if it is compressed, what tools were used to compress it, and how to decompress it.

But you are right, x and c are mutually exclusive.

[-] thejml@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Yeap, apparently I can’t type. So, we’d all be dead anyway with that bomb.

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