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High quality diagram explaining how to decompress tar files (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by TotallyNotCommunist@lemmygrad.ml to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] deeply_moving_queef@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

tar -xzvf file.tar.gz

I remember the flags with a very silly mnemonic.

extract zee veryimportant files

[โ€“] TotallyNotCommunist@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is there a difference between using -xzvf and -xf? I always just chose the shortest one, I hope it doesn't matter much, my muscle memory is already too high

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