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

It is invigorating.

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[–] 3 points 1 hour ago

i always forgot about -J so i got used to writing tar --xz -cvf archive.tar.xz file1 file2… instead. it's a bit more explicit and i'll never have to hunt for the same flag in the man page again.

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