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.”
I know this is a meme, but I actually find tar fairly easy to remember.
tar -xf $archive is extract file
tar -czf $archive dir/ is create zipped (compressed) file and the positional arguments are the files to add to the archive.
And this is 99% of my usage. You can skip -f $archive to use stdin/stdout or use -C to change directory (weird name but logically tar always extracts to the current directory). There is also a flag to list which I always forget and lookup each time, but I list much less often. -v is useful for verbose.
Overall there are much harder commands to remember. find always gets me if I go beyond -name. ps, tree and ls (beyond -Al) always get me to open the man page.
There is also a flag to list which I always forget and lookup each time
That would be -t, which I tend to remember as “test”, as in testing to see what is inside the archive!
tealdeer is a great program to have installed for easily getting a breakdown of the flags of pretty much any CLI app that at least I can ever think of!
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I know this is a meme, but I actually find
tarfairly easy to remember.tar -xf $archiveis extract filetar -czf $archive dir/is create zipped (compressed) file and the positional arguments are the files to add to the archive.And this is 99% of my usage. You can skip
-f $archiveto use stdin/stdout or use-Cto change directory (weird name but logically tar always extracts to the current directory). There is also a flag to list which I always forget and lookup each time, but I list much less often.-vis useful for verbose.Overall there are much harder commands to remember.
findalways gets me if I go beyond-name.ps,treeandls(beyond-Al) always get me to open the man page.That would be
-t, which I tend to remember as “test”, as in testing to see what is inside the archive!tealdeer is a great program to have installed for easily getting a breakdown of the flags of pretty much any CLI app that at least I can ever think of!