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Nhil1657yWouldn't the better test be that you have to tarball up some files? I usually forget which way round the tarball name and the items to tarball go...
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file sometarball.tgz # to confirm file format
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Meta33867yI once printed myself a little table to remember how the tar command works, but by the time I actually hit the print button, I knew them by heart because I spent so much time on prettifying the little table, so I eventually threw that piece of paper away right after printing it.
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On my phone and couldn’t seem to be able to copy this to a pastebin somehow.
My function 'extract' for extracting any compressed file
# extract: Extract most know archives with one command
# ---------------------------------------------------------
extract () {
if [ -f $1 ] ; then
case $1 in
*.tar.bz2) tar xjf $1 ;;
*.tar.gz) tar xzf $1 ;;
*.bz2) bunzip2 $1 ;;
*.rar) unrar e $1 ;;
*.gz) gunzip $1 ;;
*.tar) tar xf $1 ;;
*.tbz2) tar xjf $1 ;;
*.tgz) tar xzf $1 ;;
*.zip) unzip $1 ;;
*.Z) uncompress $1 ;;
*.7z) 7z x $1 ;;
*) echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via extract()" ;;
esac
else
echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
fi
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slar3007yI thought this is something covered in the first hour of UNIX 101.
Maybe I'm just old and have extracted way too many compressed tar archives in my days. -
@ChainsawBaby I'm using this for such a long time, I just found it with the function name "ex".
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-vim-31687ytar xf somepackage.tar.gz
Tar will automatically guess the compression, no need for -z
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!rant
Challenge for all Linux users:
You have to unpack sometarball.tgz
You have 10 seconds.
No googling!
Can you do it?
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