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[-] Hope@lemmy.world 131 points 2 months ago

I feel very confident in my understanding of random 8 bit CPUs and their support chips, but asking me to center a div is like this xkcd.

[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 29 points 2 months ago

I’ve never understood why people are so intimidated by tar

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

One reason is that tar supports both traditional style args "tar tf <filename.tar>" and unix-style args "tar -tf <filename.tar>" but there are subtle differences in how they work.

[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Literally the only time I’ve ever run into that is when I was trying to manipulate the path it extracted to. In 99% of cases I’m doing tf, xf, or cf plus flags for the compression type, etc, and those differences are irrelevant.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I used something recently where it wasn't possible to use the traditional-style args. I think it was a "diff", which meant I needed a "-f". It wasn't a big deal, but, occasionally it does happen.

[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

I’m not saying it doesn’t happen. This thread started because I said I’ve never understood why people talk like tar is some indecipherable black magic. Common tasks are easy and there’s a man page for everything else.

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