How to write a 'tar' command

Zacryon, 9 months ago

Ah yes, that’s the linux community as I know it. There is one thing someone wants to achieve and dozens of ways to do it. ;)

https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/1f40c1f5-280f-466a-9c47-f023172986f0.png

pineapplelover, 9 months ago

Nah I just use 7z

Maoo, 9 months ago

No no it’s this:

1. Decide you’ve gotta use tar.
2. man tar
3. Guess-and-check the flags until it seems to work.
4. Immediately forget the flags.

gibson, 9 months ago

I don’t think tar is actually hard, we are just in the time where we externalize more information into resources such as Google. Its the same reason why younger people don’t remember routes by name or cardinal direction as much anymore.

side note: $ tldr is much better than man for just getting common stuff done.

perviouslyiner, 9 months ago

easy

eager_eagle, 9 months ago

tar --help

cross fingers

cooopsspace, 9 months ago

tar --hep

Fuck.

bdonvr, 9 months ago

It should be a crime to directly link XKCDs images without the corresponding page.

xkcd.com/1168/