• redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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      1 year ago

      More than a decade of using linux and I still can’t remember setfacl syntax. I have better luck remembering tar syntax.

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          And tar -czf compress ze file. I saw someone post these mnemonic devices a while back and now I actually remember tar commands. Amazing!

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          This is a very useful way to remember it, but nowadays it’s better to drop the z (which immediately makes the mnemonic more forgettable, of course). tar can autodetect compression now, so tar -xf should work on anything from plain tar archives over tar.gz to more unusual compression algorithms like tar.xz or tar.bz2.

          (the z is specifically for gzip)