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

It is invigorating.

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[–] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

The flag to extract .bz2 files is 'j'. Not confusing at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    Burrows–Wheeler algorithm or block-compression algorithm, the bzip2 file compression program was developed by Julian Seward.

    Ah yes, totally makes sense.

    XZ Utils started as a Unix port of Igor Pavlov's LZMA (Lempel–Ziv–Markov) algorithm, by Lasse Collin, and then by the Tukaani Project.

    So apparently the uppercase J stands for "that guy who made a better compression algorithm than Julian".

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