img title=“I don’t know what’s worse–the fact that after 15 years of using tar I still can’t keep the flags straight, or that after 15 years of technological advancement I’m still mucking with tar flags that were 15 years old when I started.”
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At some point, I realized
tar xf
is enough for extracting a file, so that’s what I’m always using now.