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[-] Rooster326@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

(X) Doubt.

They won't know what to do with a tarball anymore than I do

[-] jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 20 hours ago

as long as a paper manual exists...

(tar -xzvf btw, the dash before xzvf is optional)

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

If I tarred it it'll be tar -xjvf tarball.tbz

I prefer bzip2

this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2026
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