Tradional Usage
tar {A|c|d|r|t|u|x}[GnSkUWOmpsMBiajJzZhPlRvwo] [ARG...]
It is invigorating.
tar x|c|t+v(f)(z)this is pretty much everything I’ve ever used.
Xtract ze vucking file
Create ze vucking file
Wait until you manage to rsync correctly…
Or find with exec
Unless you’re doing something really specific just use
-a.Well i’ll be damned learning just now thanks to you that it equals -rlptgoD (recursive, links, perms, times, group, owner, devices)
I’m one of the lucky 10000…
If like me you have no memory, use aliases often.
Put them in a dedicated file, I find it easier to manage. You’ll need to modify bashrc or zshrc to link to the new file. Big plus, they now work with both. I don’t know if it can be done with fish.
Now my favorite tip for us brainless: start aliases with an easy to reach character you most likely wouldn’t use in a terminal. I use “é”, on a french keyboard.
é+tab: all my aliases é+t+tab: I see “étarextract” (there it is), “étext-edit”, “étodo”
I don’t even need to remember aliases. I don’t need to remember anything!
Imathop out.Honestly I just create and extract. I don’t use most of the options. But, I had a lead about ten years ago dare me to create and compress a .tar.gz directly without looking it up and I was most of the way through typing it by the time he finished talking. He looked at me like I was doing black magic.
That would work if it was find instead of tar.
of course I know it, it’s
tldr tarSame but with math: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power
Read here (PDF): https://archive.org/download/TheFeelingOfPower/The Feeling of Power.pdf
It’s pretty simple
tar e[x]tract [z]is [f]ile [v]erbosely archive.tar.gz --directory=archivedirFor creation it’s pretty much the same but you need to specify [c]reate, e.g.
tar czvf archive.tar.gz filestoarchive/and for lis[t]ing it’s -tar tf archive.tar.gzv stands for “vocking”, tar -xzvf is the intended use
That mnemonic is misleading if it’s not gzipped, and unless you’re untarring a stream from a pipe or over a network, you don’t need to tell
tarwhat compression was used when extracting, it knows.Tar -xf doodoobutt.tar
it that simple.
tar [t]he [f]uck am_i_looking_at.tar.gz
true and real
I can do that since 2005 when I installed gentoo for the first time.
Tar (some versions at least?) is actually smart enough to detect which format to use based on file extension of the output, so you don’t need to remember which flag corresponds to which compressor. Examples:
tar -caf archive.tar.xz [files] tar -caf archive.tar.bz2 [files] # extract tar -xf archive.tar.xz tar -xf archive.tar.bz2So you really only need to remember that
cmeans create,xmeans extractNo, programs could not be smart. Stop anthropomorphising them
Thanks for sharing this.
more ~/.zsh_history | grep tar
highlight
copy
paste
move cursor to change file
am i doing it right
Press Ctrl-R then type “tar”.
If you use fzf you can just type “ctrl-r tar”
You don’t need more, you can just
grep tar ~/.zsh_historyIf you only want the first ten results pipe to head.
If you want more interactivity use
less ~/.zsh_historyThen press / to search. Press n for next match
rsync over ssh
It’s easy, you just have to remember the development was from Transylvania.
EXtract Ze Vamn Files
