Evan Hahn · @EvanHahn
908 followers · 283 posts · Server bigshoulders.city

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.)

evanhahn.com/mnemonic-to-remem

#tar #tarball #linux #cli #commandline

Last updated 1 year ago

Evan Hahn · @EvanHahn
873 followers · 244 posts · Server bigshoulders.city

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! git.sr.ht/~evanhahn/tinytar.js

#tar #tarball #javascript #programming

Last updated 1 year ago

Kevin Karhan :verified: · @kkarhan
786 followers · 38402 posts · Server mstdn.social

@nicklockwood yes.

in general doesn't as there are system-wide 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 and to help you along and for really lazy people there's .AppImage as self-contained executeable or the old where you put all stuff into a folder.

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

#PackageManagers #Docker #tarball #snap #Flatpak #Linux

Last updated 2 years ago

Kristian Harstad · @KristianHarstad
357 followers · 537 posts · Server mastodon.cloud

so i saw this here

and it got me thinking about and

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

purretty good purrivacy?

furball instead of ?

ohhhh... remember ?

#tarball #cryptocat #cryptographic #algorithms #pgp #gpg #kitty #compression #cat

Last updated 2 years ago