JamieMagee,

Spent the afternoon investigating something with tar, and tripping over the CLI flags the whole time, reminds me of one of my favourite xkcds

jens,
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@JamieMagee

-xzvf usually works for me.

Learned because of that very comic.

benjaminhollon,
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@JamieMagee

Well, if it helps, I wrote an article on tar to help explain it to people: https://tty1.blog/articles/how-to-save-the-world-with-tar/

Good luck. ;)

JamieMagee,

@benjaminhollon Thanks!
I'm happy to see xkcd making an appearance there too.

I'm writing a blog post as well. Not about tar itself, but more about compression algorithms. I'll have to share it with you once I'm done.

benjaminhollon,
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@JamieMagee
Looking forward to it! :D

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