!rant
Challenge for all Linux users:
You have to unpack sometarball.tgz
You have 10 seconds.
No googling!
Can you do it?

tar -xf ?

dtrx sometarball.tgz

xkcd

Tar xvfz sometarball.tgz

tar -xvzfghjaeafgk

@growling close..enough?

Wouldn'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...

sudo rm. /file
Works every time

I remembered -xzf, I don't know what it does but it works

I don’t use the -(Options).
I just do tar xvf file.tar.gz whatever.

file sometarball.tgz # to confirm file format
tar xvf sometarball.tgz # if it was indeed a tarball

Tar -xvf "archive"

The v does not even have to be there tho.

Relevant https://xkcd.com/1168/

unp anyarchivefile

Just double-click the file? Works in nautilus.

Double click.

I 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.

no

I think im fine

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
}

I 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.

tar -xzf someball.tar.gz

@ChainsawBaby I'm using this for such a long time, I just found it with the function name "ex".

tar xzf sometarball.tz

@fuck2code tfw you are the creator of that thread😀

@fuck2code :^)

tar xf somepackage.tar.gz

Tar will automatically guess the compression, no need for -z