OMG always assumed that -c always stands for "compress" and I always placed .gz at the end to remember to place -x when extracting

I always use tldr for these things, super handy to have.

Or -I 'compress-command' -cf ... if not supported.

Nowaday I have ChatGPT spew me command. I usually do a quick validation before running. Nevertheless, most of simple operations are correct so I don't need to.

I then note the command to my persional gist cheatsheet. Next time, since the command is "cached", I'll be able to be productive quicker.

So much better than googling.

That looks really cool. And finally a guide that knows -z is not necessary all the time.

My tar command is tldr tar then ctrl + c / ctrl + v

daily-standup.png eh... :)

Who is taking pics of the standup.. :)

great, now how do I use it together with the 'feather' command?

Do more like this (・へ・)

Don't you have to specify the compression algorithm when extracting? I always use tar -xzf for gzip files and if I remove -z it just fails.

So a serious question from someone who can't remember console commands ever despite using them constantly.

Why are so many linux CLI commands set up with defaults that no one ever uses? Like if you pretty much always need -f, -v is often used, and --auto-compress is needed to recognize type by extension. Why aren't those the defaults to just using tar?

A lot of applications I find are like this too, they don't come with defaults that work or that anyone would ever use.

I would also recommend -v for verbose and -z when compressing for gzip

What does --auto-compress do?

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