Tradional Usage
  tar {A|c|d|r|t|u|x}[GnSkUWOmpsMBiajJzZhPlRvwo] [ARG...]

It is invigorating.

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[–] 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Why is everyone always going in about tar? I never saw the issue with it, its not more or less complicated than other commands that take command line flags...

For example: sudo netstat -peanut, where -peanut actually expands to -p -e -a -n -u -t. I don't have any idea anymore what each letter stands for while I do recall that tar -cjf file.tar * is -c create, -j bzip2 compression and -f filename

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  • [–] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Hah, I was taught to do netstat -tulpn. "Tulpen" is German for "tulips".

    Also, these days ss has generally replaced netstat (cause it's built into the kernel), so now I get to tell our trainees to run ss -tulpn.
    Every time, they think I'm bullshitting them, which is hilarious.

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