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[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

You don't need the z, it auto detects the compression

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I just tell our Linux newbies tar xf, as in "extract file", and that seems to stick perfectly well.

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

That's still kinda new. It didn't always do that.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Per https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/, it's been the case since 2004, so for about 19 and a half years...

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Telling someone that they are Old with saying they are old…

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Something something don't cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written...

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Right, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running

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