guess who looked at gur manpage for tar and then quickly remembered how to extract a .tar.gz file for gur first time in his life
it was me.
@bx hee, the sorcery flows through you!
i legit ended up memorizing tar xvjpf from the gentoo handbook once, and have just mentally made modifications to that information since
@thingywott im both intregued and scared to ask what xvjpf does
@bx ahah, it's nothing wild
x - extractv - verbosej - bzip2p - preserve permissionsf - (the thing after this needs to be the filename)
i've replaced j with a for the most part since that means "automatically detect the compression", but on older things, z for gzip is also handy
when i want to create something, i just replace x with c and i'm done
the only thing i don't used that baseline for is tar tv which lets you see the contents of a tar file (after f still)
@thingywott thats much more logical than i was expexting, asside from j being for bzip2, im guessing b was taken
@bx ahah, yeah! it looks like that's used to set the record size to a certain number of blocks?
