aral, (edited ) to programming
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

This is a niche one but it might help someone in the future:

How to include multiple directories from different places in the file system hierarchy in an archive without including the whole directory structure for any of them.

https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/how-to-include-multiple-directories-from-different-places-in-the-file-system-hierarchy-in-an-archive-without-including-the-whole-directory-structure-for-any-of-them.md

TL; DR: use symlinks.

tallship, to random
@tallship@fedia.social avatar

Yes! Yes! Yes!

As the saying goes, "Real BOFH use tar and rsync!"

The blog article is an excellent treatment of using tar along with SSH to effect a reliable backup plan and schedule.

Another couple of great fav GoTo solutions of mine have always been Duplicity and Duply for those not comfortable rolling their own scripts w/SSH, tar, and/or rsync ​:batman:​

Thank you very much for sharing this @nixCraft !!!

You can haz ! 🍔

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RE: mastodon.social/users/nixCraft/statuses/112276456842443382

AskPippa, to Canada
@AskPippa@c.im avatar

Canadian banks are leaders in funding fossil fuel expansion, report.
"global analysis on fossil fuel banking. Endorsed by 624 organizations from 75 countries, it reveals the truth of banks’ commitments to the climate by examining their financing of the fuel industry.

For the first time since 2019, a Canadian bank is the #1 annual financier of fossil fuels rather than US bank JP Morgan Chase. Royal Bank of () showered fossil fuel projects with $41 billion dollars in 2022, including $4.8 billion for sands and $7.4 billion into fracking. Canadian banks are becoming the banks of last resort for fossil fuels, providing $862 billion to fossil fuel companies since the Paris Agreement."


https://www.ran.org/press-releases/new-report-canadian-bank-rbc-the-1-financier-of-fossil-fuels-worlds-biggest-banks-continued-to-pour-billions-into-fossil-fuel-expansion/

governa, to linux
@governa@fosstodon.org avatar
tomfevrier, to random French
@tomfevrier@mastodon.social avatar

🎬 2024 est là, l’occasion de revenir sur l’année cinéma qui vient de s’achever.

C’est parti pour mon de 2023 🧵

tomfevrier,
@tomfevrier@mastodon.social avatar

, , , et tant d’autres œuvres ayant marqué 2023 font partie de mes films préférés de l’année, mais n’y figureront pas non plus.

governa, to random
@governa@fosstodon.org avatar
orhun, to rust
@orhun@fosstodon.org avatar

Thanks to this tool I never have to remember the arguments to "tar" anymore ✨

🦀 ouch: Painless compression and decompression in the terminal - written in Rust.

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch

enno, to random German
@enno@nafo.army avatar

Ich suche eine App, welche meine Ergüsse Parallel auf Twitter, Mastodon, Post, Bluesky und Threads postet und die Antworten sortiert. Und dann bitte einen Messanger für WA, Signal, Telegram, iMessage, Threema, ...

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@floe @enno Und anders als z.B. @torproject hat @signalapp nunmal ne menge Daten wie |n und ist nicht nur in der Lage sondern auch willens alla durchzuboxen und ist qua Jurisitkation unter fallend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

D.h. nein ich vertraue denen garnicht und das sollte auch niememsch anderes...

Ich würde gar alle Drei-Buchstaben-Dienste als gemeingefährlich-inkompetent bezeichnen wenn die niemensch eingeschleust haben!

YesIKnowIT, to zip
@YesIKnowIT@mastodon.social avatar

.tar, .zip, .gz--you already have seen those extensions at the end of archive files, don't you?

But what do they mean? What is the difference between those formats?

https://itsfoss.com/tar-vs-zip-vs-gz/

Garwboy, to Podcast
@Garwboy@ohai.social avatar

Episode 61: “A full brick of British Butter”

https://shows.acast.com/why-does-this-thing-exist-podcast/episodes/episode-61-a-full-brick-of-british-butter

Another cracker this week as
I make Simon ponder the viscosity of tar, and Simon debates the utility of butter, in an episode that ends up being weirdly focused on dense liquids

For the record, this is PHOTOSHOPPED image!

philipdutre, to random Dutch
@philipdutre@mastodon.online avatar

Net de film gezien. Aanrader.

EvanHahn, to linux

The tar command is famously hard to use.

To create a tarball, remember "Create A File":

tar -caf my_archive.tar.gz file1.txt file2.png

To extract a tarball, remember "eXtract A File":

tar -xaf my_archive.tar.gz

(This works great on Linux. On macOS and some other systems, the -a flag causes problems during extraction—use -xf instead.)

https://evanhahn.com/mnemonic-to-remember-tar-commands/

Binder, to random
@Binder@petrous.vislae.town avatar

It’s a violation of The Magician’s Oath to reveal the ingredients of Magic Shell dessert topping.

asbestos,
@asbestos@toot.community avatar
JamieMagee, to random

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

YesIKnowIT, to random
@YesIKnowIT@mastodon.social avatar

.tar, .zip, .gz--you already have seen those extensions at the end of archive files, don't you?

But what do they mean? What is the difference between those formats?

https://itsfoss.com/tar-vs-zip-vs-gz/

hdm, to random

Excellent reporting by @dangoodin : Critical Barracuda 0-day was used to backdoor networks for 8 months https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/critical-barracuda-0-day-was-used-to-backdoor-networks-for-8-months/ ... and who says Perl isn't relevant anymore =D

mjgardner,
@mjgardner@social.sdf.org avatar

@barubary @hdm @dangoodin Also, has had built-in support since 2007. Why out? https://perldoc.perl.org/Archive::Tar

You can even pull files out to memory without touching disk storage: https://perldoc.perl.org/Archive::Tar::File

grgml, to random

Got around to watching yesterday and really enjoyed it. And this review nails it https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/plenipotentiary

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