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tar -vczfx123 ought to do it
(imgs.xkcd.com)
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A little trick I learned on here was to imagine yourself as a little evil man saying "Extract ze files!" in a German accent. Extract ze files >>> xzf.
Only works for tar.gz. Remember there's also tar.xz, tar.bz, tar.bz2 and half have their own extractor flag. FUN. It's usually J.
The post only calls for "a valid tar command", not that it has to work for any specific circumstance.
xaf
(extract a file) auto-detects the format.Extract Any File
Extract All Files
I don't remember the last time I had to worry about the compression. I simply run
tar xf myfile.tar.whatever
and it works every time.That sounds a lot like Czech, "ze" means "from" if you translate it into English
Looks, not sounds. Ahoj!
I still use that. ๐