The tar command is famously hard to use.

To create a tarball, remember "Create A File":

tar -caf my_archive.tar.gz file1.txt file2.png

To extract a tarball, remember "eXtract A File":

tar -xaf my_archive.tar.gz

(This works great on Linux. On macOS and some other systems, the -a flag causes problems during extraction—use -xf instead.)

https://evanhahn.com/mnemonic-to-remember-tar-commands/

#tar #tarball #Linux #CLI #CommandLine

Just built and published “TinyTar.js”, a very small (376 bytes gzipped) JavaScript library for creating tar files. Probably not very useful, but fun to build! https://git.sr.ht/~evanhahn/tinytar.js

#tar #tarball #JavaScript #programming

@nicklockwood yes.

#Linux in general doesn't as there are system-wide #PackageManagers to handle dependencies.

Regardless if deb [apt], rpm [yum], python [pip], (node)JS [npm], and even if you want to just dump an app onto a machine onto a machine there's #flatpak and #snap to help you along and for really lazy people there's .AppImage as self-contained executeable or the old #tarball where you put all stuff into a folder.

Tho people like @fuchsiii will point at #docker to make like easier.

so i saw this here #kitty

and it got me thinking about #compression and #cryptographic #algorithms

and how much more fun they would be if they were #cat themed

purretty good purrivacy? #PGP #GPG

furball instead of #tarball?

ohhhh... remember #cryptocat?