Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck

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      6 months ago

      I even read this aloud in my head as “CREATE ZE VUCKING FILE” in a particularly bad German accent same as over 20 years ago when a friend I worked for drilled it in my head.

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      6 months ago

      Yep, have this one committed to memory. Though if it asked me to uncompress a tarball, then I’d be fucked

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        6 months ago

        tar xzvf this_awesome_file.tgz

        … fixed. Apparently I can’t type.

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          I think you want to remove the c because that means “create” an archive, and you’re missing a z which applies gzip decompression/compression

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            I suppose it is tar version dependent, but on any recent Linux version I have used, you can just tar xvf <tar_name.tar.{z,gz,xz,etc}> and it will automatically figure out if it is compressed, what tools were used to compress it, and how to decompress it.

            But you are right, x and c are mutually exclusive.

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              Yeap, apparently I can’t type. So, we’d all be dead anyway with that bomb.