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What were the magic letters you need to add again, to just fucking unpack something? (feddit.org)
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[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

tar -xvf filename I don’t even know what it does but I’ve memorised it.

[–] fraksken@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

x for extract v is verbose f for file input

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

-zxf for me, I've mostly used it on gzipped archives